Why are people greedy?
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u bring your children up to appreciate things, by saying no and not letting them get their own way all the time
i was brought up spoilt rotten and i now cant just have 1 thing i have to have it all!!!
Humans have natural instincts that ensured our survival over the eons. Greed, in a sense that it is avarice that is beyond a cultural or societal tolerance, is a manifestation of a primal urge to survive. To get as much as one can to prevent or stave off starvation or privation.
Greed is subjective. Is someone who socks away a lot of money for the future education of a child, more than what is needed being greedy or wise? Is an executive being paid far more than what he or she is worth to their company being greedy or rewarded?
It's a little of both I think, people are naturally greedy but you can nurture them and teach them to not be that way. If you raise a child to understand how to work for rewards and things, as well as teach them to simply enjoy and like what they need and have and not what they want, then when they get what they want added to what they need they'll like it even more.
Basicly they work for what they need, they work harder for what they want and they'll enjoy it that much more and not be greedy for more then they need.
A little of them both.
people are greedy because our human nature has a propensity towards sin, and that´s what we should try to overcome.There are many "rags-to -riches" cases in which those who used to be poor(and weren´t raised to be greedy) became obsessed with money.On the other hand, many young people are avaricious because their parents or teachers taught them money is everthing and "time is MONEY"
The best thing you can do with kids is to teach them that there are thousands of things money can´t just buy, like love or a good family.
we came to this world with nothing and we´ll leave it with no possessions, too
Society.
I think it is more nurture than nature. These are some of the changes I have observed since I was growing up in the 50s and 60s and I'm speaking from first hand experience.
My dad was in a m/c accident and had permanent brain damage so we had it pretty rough after the accident but I believe we were much happier and closer than most families are today because we learned the difference between a necessity and a luxury.
When kids are small, their parents, gr-parents and aunts and uncles lavish them with toys, toys and more toys but they never get rid of any of them.
They should set rules that they can keep so many toys and the rest have to go to the Goodwill for some unfortunate kid to enjoy. If you get a gift, you get rid of a toy ~ it balances things out and the kids learn to share and they also learn not to hoard everything.
Most kids today are not taught the value of the dollar because they never have to work for it, instead they ask their parents who continue to pour it into their hands like it grows on trees.
Even if kids get a job of any kind, they aren't taught to save some of the money "for a rainy day" so instead they go out and buy everything their little heart desires and when they get in a financial pickle, they go running home to mom and dad to bail them out. That, unfortunately, extends to when they are in the 20s and 30s ~ parents need to learn to say no so they learn responsibility for their actions.
Kids are not taught to respect their parents or their teachers and when they get in trouble at school, the parents go and cuss the teacher out rather than stop and teach the child to get-along and obey the rules.
When they get in trouble with the police, the parents bail them out over and over again and don't teach the child to take responsibility for their actions. And heaven forbid if the child would have to make restitution which would teach them a few things.
Parents supply the cars and the insurance and gas that goes with them and expect nothing in return. Then when they have an accident, it becomes the fault of the city or the other driver even though their child was driving drunk, went left of center and fought the officer when they tried to handcuff them.
The kids want brand name clothes so the parents buy them. The closets are packed full of clothes and half of them they don't even wear but they buy them more and more so they can keep up with their friends. They need to learn that brand name isn't always necessary, that they can look just as good in something less costly.
Kids don't have to share rooms anymore where they learn to respect the person they share the room with and few kids today are taught to pick up after themselves and keep their room clean, much less the rest of the house.
When responsibility doesn't come along with what people want, greed sets in. When you don't teach a child the value of a dollar, they never understand how hard it is to earn that money.
Too many kids have the wrong attitude today and are very self-centered and it all started at home where the lessons of life were not taught.
Probably because of some survival instinct left over from the dark ages with the fear of going without.
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