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Greed is an addiction to acquisition, or an unchecked obsession with making one's life state as secure as possible. The more stuff you get, the more cushioning. It is not a good thing. Also, saying greed has propelled "progress" depends on how you view our progress. Depending on where you come from and what you do for a living, civilization is either an amazing success, an empty mess, or immimenently headed for self-destruction. It was creativity and determination that brought us where we are, in my opinion, and greed is a defect, a symptom of macrocosmic flaws in human nature that will probably always plague us.
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"The idea that money doesn't buy you happiness is a lie put about by the rich, to stop the poor from killing them." -- Michael Caine
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