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In reply to the discussion: Check In, If You're Pretty Sick And Tired Of The People Who Run This Planet [View all]defacto7
(13,485 posts)of greed is fear of deprivation, but there is an type of greed that has developed in recent centuries and is very common and expanding having little or nothing to do with fear. This greed is sociopathic and those who possess it have no apathy or guilt neither do they fear loss or concern for their property. They find pleasure or at least a passive peace in knowing others fear them and depend on them. They may even find it entertaining in knowing others envy their possessions. These types are mostly at the highest levels of world economic dominance but more recently are all across the spectrum from middle wealth to the highest.
If they were posed with loss it's possible they could digress to fear but actually it's unlikely because they wouldn't be able to comprehend it.
That's the most dangerous and unyielding type of greed. It has no interest in average people except as part of their possessions. It's an increasing phenomenon unfortunately and dominant in upper banking, corporate and background political controls. In America and also the Middle East, there are some religious systems that promote it through the idea that they are chosen of their deity to be in a position of power therefore they fear no man.
Greed has evolved beyond its origin.