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the appetite that mistakes more for enough and never updates the math
means the quality of wanting and grabbing far more than one needs, whether of food, money, or anything else.
from From "greedy," which traces back to Old English "grǣdig" — hungry, voracious — with cousins across the Germanic languages (Old Norse "gráðr," hunger; Gothic "grēdus"). The abstract noun is built with the familiar "-ness" suffix, which English has long used to spin a quality out of an adjective. So at root the word literally describes the state of being ravenous, later widened from the belly to the wallet and beyond.
- deadly sin
- called greed, ranked among Catholicism's seven worst
- brain chemistry
- dopamine spikes on anticipation, not the actual reward
- economic term
- greedy algorithms grab the best local option, missing better ones
- hoarding paradox
- more possessions correlate with lower life satisfaction
- midas problem
- the wish for gold starved its own wisher
bernie madoff — ponzi scheme operator who defrauded investors of $65 billion, the largest financial fraud in us history
elizabeth holmes — theranos founder who defrauded investors of $700 million with fake blood-testing technology claims
kenneth lay enron — enron ceo whose corporate fraud destroyed $74 billion in shareholder value in 2001