Greed In Modern Society

There is greed present everywhere around us. As our world continues to modernize are our needs unnecessarily increasing and morals decreasing as a result? Greed can be defined as the excessive desire of wanting lots of money or material possession and is very prevalent in today’s society as many people only care about personal gain rather than helping others. Greed often has to do with wanting lots of money or material wealth, but it isn’t just limited to physical possessions. Any time someone wants more than their fair share or has a strong desire to accumulate something, especially at the expense of others, this can be considered a form of greed.

On a personal level, greed consumes people making them devious, petty, and very envious. What

In 2003’s Invasion of Iraq, America driven by greed invaded Iraq for acquisition of resources, oil in particular. This thirst for greed empowered America so much that they disregarded the thought of all the innocents who would be harmed during the process, they weren’t vigilant of the consequences which awaited them and how others would be affected as a result. The Americans said that their main intention and focus was to block the use of weapons of mass destruction and that the war on Iraq was solely about terrorism. But there are many facts which contradict their claim, for instance Al-Qaeda terrorists were not from Iraq and there were was no significant presence of Al-Qaida in Iraq before the invasion. In their fit for greed America lied to it’s citizens and discarded their morals in the process, just so that they could obtain resources and thus fulfil their greedy needs with no regards to those who would be affected in the process. Between the years 2003-2013 about 112,000-123,000 innocent civilians have been killed because of the invasion. This large number of casualties was very unnecessary and only occurred because of the greediness demonstrated by the Americans from when they chose to first invade Iraq for oil in 2003. This goes to show how one's greedy actions broadly affects the ones around them, unnecessarily putting their innocent lives in the