Unidiversal Human

Greed

"The poor shall be with us always" has been a common belief,

but it is only true in that it is caused by the undying greed of those who are not poor

Greed: An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.

For Unidiversal purposes, greed is defined as "the taking or giving advantage of one person over another".

The most powerful people and nations of the world were founded on greed. "The poor shall be with us always" has been a common belief, but it is only true in that it is caused by the undying greed of those who are not poor. Value and greed are very different things: value is the ability of someone to succeed without taking advantage of others and greed is succeeding by taking advantage of others. This is true whether those being taken advantage of are slaves, employees, or any other individuals.

Freedom of religion has been a great asset to the founding and establishment of the United States of America. Without it, there would be no unity among the people of this country. However, greed took hold of the reality of this freedom from the very beginning in as much as many were only interested in this freedom to get out from under religious financial control so they could become overly rich and powerful. Once the caste system was done away with, many disadvantaged people took the opportunity to take advantage of others. Another founding motivation, "taxation without representation", grew into "complicated taxation without specific direction in order to control community and personal interests. In other words, "taxation to take advantage of those who are not advantaged".

Some ancient religions go so far as to say that it is an abomination to have riches and power. This is a humble and noble gesture, but demeans the fact that every person has been designed by the focus of existence to be motivated, succeed, grow, and increase in every way. Can all of this be accomplished without taking advantage of each other? Without the natural human desire to succeed it would not be considered possible, but it is possible and occurs constantly. The only real issue here is, why do people tend to extend the natural course of success into unnatural greed.

Overindulgence, greed, and gluttony all seem to be natural "next steps" for most people once they reach the top of their ladder of interest. It's not that there isn't more to accomplish, the intrigue is that there is more than is possible. It is natural for human beings to go above and beyond in search of the ultimate possibilities in any interest or field. This natural urge supercedes peoples ability to realize or care about when they are taking advantage of those who are disadvantaged. It even allows those successes to put others at disadvantages. Even though the successful generally tend to try to reward others of service to them, their success tends to blind them to possibilities of not putting others at disadvantage. Then the success wins over conscience and power is used to increase their greed and crush the disadvantaged even more.

Is it possible for the successful and the disadvantaged to be equal? Can the power of success be limited from hindering those who are already disadvantaged? How is it possible to reward success and stop its' following greed? What was intended by the ultimate source's design of humanity to cause such a torturous dilemma? How can peoples' finite mentality be motivated to comprehend and maintain success without greed? Aside from Unidiversal Faith, there is ultimately no motivation. without greed.