Etymologically, greed comes from the Latin “Avaritia” . Greed can be explained as the inordinate desire to acquire fortune to accumulate it. The person who has greed is called a miser, and is a person who is not capable of spending, much less sharing his goods with anyone.
For example, there are people who spend their lives accumulating wealth and are not able to enjoy it for fear of spending it. Greed can lead the individual to commit illicit acts such as scams of other people, in order to continue adding wealth, the only thing that matters to him is to accumulate and accumulate money no matter what he has to do to achieve it.
Greedy people face a moral conflict, keeping negative feelings in their hearts such as selfishness, indifference to the needs of others and that lead them to profit at the expense of the hardships and needs of others. Greed can be linked to ambition, however ambition has a positive part, instead greed can be an addiction for the person, an inordinate desire to have wealth that leads him to commit dishonest and disloyal acts.
Characters that have this characteristic have been seen in cartoons, for example in the SpongeBob cartoon, there is a character who is a crab called "Mr. Krabs" this character is extremely greedy, the most important thing for him is to make and make money His love for him is such that he still keeps the first dollar he earned in his life, this makes him a despotic person with his employees, he forces them to work and work for him to continue getting richer and richer. Another character is that of rich Mac Duck, the popular uncle of Donald Duck, also a super greedy character, he has a pool of gold coins, where he launches himself to swim whenever he wants.
In the religious context, greed is considered a capital sin, and it is not for Christians to have love for material things since they are of no importance to God. The person who is not detached from his material objects, tends to move away from honesty and charity, fundamental values for human beings.
