Their inability to empathise, their lack of genuine interest in the ideas and feelings of others, and their unwillingness to take personal responsibility for their behaviour and actions makes them very difficult people to be with. They are never satisfied. Greedy people look at the world as a zero-sum game.

A more idiomatic understanding of this phrase is, “For every possible kind of evil can be motivated by the love of money.” Meaning, greed can lead to any number of different kind of evils, not that all evil is rooted in the love of money. It has frequently been rendered as “money is the root of all evil”.

A popular current text, the King James Version shows 1 Timothy 6:10 to be: For the love of money is the root of all of evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Greed is good not just for your own life but for others as well. By elevating your life, you can radically elevate your family’s life, your community, and yes, even the world. You just need to get greedy. You need to focus so intently on what it is you want that your desire seeps out of your pores.

Greed is not the problem, it is a symptom. The root cause of greed is thinking of ourselves in isolation from others or as members of elite peer groups that define what we should want. We are members of larger communities with many kinds of people, on whom we depend and who depend on us.

Unchecked greed can destroy the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasising throughout society. Our tendency towards conspicuous consumption has already inflicted severe damage to the environment. The victory of greed over compassion may ultimately cause our civilisation’s downfall.

Finally, it is worth emphasizing that greed is a multi-faceted personality trait and may manifest as a myriad of behavioral propensities under different contexts.

Greed is a deadly condition indeed. Like most addictions, the exercise of greed creeps up unawares, gains a behavioural hold, a psychological grip, takes possession, is denied, rationalised and exercised in the belief that the behaviour is normative rather than out of control.

Greed begins in the neurochemistry of the brain. What fuels our greed is a hormone neurotransmitter in the brain called dopamine. The higher the dopamine levels in the brain, the more pleasure we experience. Cocaine, for example, directly increases dopamine levels.

Vaccinia doesn’t cause diseases in humans, but it has helped us fight them. Thanks to its resemblance to the smallpox virus, researchers were able to use vaccinia as a vaccine for the disease, eventually leading to its eradication in the late 1970s.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Money disordersare the maladaptive patterns of financial beliefs and behaviors that lead to clinically significant distress, impairment in social or occupational functioning, due to financial strain or an inability to appropriately enjoy one’s financial resources.

While money disorders are not considered specific mental disorders, they can occur from other underlying problems and can be treated. According to a 2018 Northwestern Mutual Study 9 in 10 Americans agreed that being financially sound makes them happier and less stressed.

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a personality disorder that’s characterized by extreme perfectionism, order, and neatness. People with OCPD will also feel a severe need to impose their own standards on their outside environment.

Fear of spending money, known as chrometophobia or chrematophobia, is an abnormal and persistent fear of spending money or being around it.

A 2011 study found that anger is a common symptom of OCD. It affects approximately half of people with OCD. Anger may result from frustration with your inability to prevent obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, or from having someone or something interfere with your ability to carry out a ritual.