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How greedy are you?

Jeff Carter
3 min readJul 17, 2023

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Redefining success means examining one’s own greed!

Can we categorize greed?

Money greed is an insatiable desire to continually make more and more money. The ‘How much is enough?’ debate. In other words it cannot be a satiated desire. Or is a sign of true wisdom making it a satiated desire by strictly defining what your money needs are versus wants?

Power greed is an insatiable desire to not only keep power, but want more and more. And this is basically the history of military wars and business wars over the last four or five centuries. And ultra right-wing politics in the early 2020s, wanting more power. True fascism is wanting complete and total power over others.

Fame greed is the celebrity status or the celebrity ranking of always being in the limelight, always being wanted, always being needed, always getting the accolades, always winning the awards. And of course the lifestyle that goes with being a celebrated celebrity. This also includes the new crop of social media influencer wannabes as well as high-profile politicians.

Status greed is similar to fame but it’s for the non-celebrity. It is the quiet billionaires, it is the Jeffrey Epstiens and it is the low-key politician. It is the entitled masses or groups that think they should have status above everybody else. It is also the…

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Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter

Written by Jeff Carter

Learning Architect / Freelance Educationist

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