"The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. It's one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life." A lot has changed in the money system in the last 10,000 years. Where we use paper money and/or coins, people used to use shells or traded cattle. The cycle in history was simple, if you were a farmer and needed clothing, you gave the seamstress corn or wheat, and the seamstresses then gave it to another person for something he/she needed and so on and so forth. Now money is used as a form or power. If you have a lot of money it is perceived that you have a lot of power or say in what happens with anything. There is a big difference in being greedy and not being greedy. Even though there is a fine line between the two there is. Some believe being greedy is having all the money one could need and still needing more, or wanting more, while others believe that greed is something you are born with.
             First, having all the money in the world, all the money one could ask for but still wanting more is just greedy. For example, Mr. Vanderbilt lived alone, he didn't have a wife and he didn't have any kids, but he did have a 25 bedroom house. He has a $100,000,000 house with millions of dollars in paintings on his wall. His dining room sits 64 but he is the only one there. This is greed, he has no one to share any of his stuff with and yet he has so much (John Stossel, Greed). In addition, Leona Helmslee, a very rich and successful hotel mogul, sued to get her late sons estate and left her grandchildren with less than five hundred dollars each, making her a making her a millionaire. She could have left all her sons estate to his kids, but she only cared about herself and didn't care if she was being greedy (John Stossel Greed). Furthermore, former Filipino First...