Genetics of greed

Hi everyone, I'm just a newbie so I wanted to start my blogs with a topic that leaves an indelible mark on one’s mind. That's why I have chosen to write on a common yet controversial topic of greed. Greed or ravenousness has a solid natural basis but even deeper social roots. To look at avarice and how it fits into human psychology, we have to begin from the beginning. 

Here I would like to quote Rabindranath Taggorehe "The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life". The meaning of voracity is a great or unnecessary yearning for assets, particularly for property, for example, cash, land, or different images of riches. 

In fundamental terms, "over the top" is having something to such an extent it's unsafe. For instance, extreme drinking prompts unconsciousness and despising yourself in the morning. Extreme eating prompts corpulence. These are viewpoints that a great many people would concur as hurtful. 

In any case, every one of these things is destructive just to the person. However the questions that pops up are when did greed become an integral part of human nature? And how could a yearning for riches be hurtful? Each individual needs a level of riches to survive: you have to purchase sustenance, pay the rent, get apparel, transportation, buy food and there is paying for vacations and self grooming etc., without cash you could starve to death, something that is certainly destructive. Moreover, the more money you have, the better the quality of life. Let me repeat, how could a yearning for riches, and in this "manner the things it gets you, be hurtful?

The answer lies in the fact that humans are social and cultural animals. In spite of the fact that for the individual eagerness (a powerful urge for riches) is great, the social gathering that individual has a place with might think voracity is terrible for the community.

The principal needs of people have also changed. Now it's not only the food and the basics but there is also land to develop sustenance, and extra cash to be accumulated and luxuries like cars etc. 

Now addressing how greed stems up in the society? The issue actually began with the expanding population and the constrained of wealth. In the beginning there was only a limited amount of wealth, land and cash and different assets to go around. Along these lines, for one individual to store up a ton of riches, the need developed to diminish what another person could get. This made clash in the general public between those who are well off and the less wealthy, the hard workers and the no-getters. 

A community should be supportive of its members with respect to creating as much equality between people as possible. And thus we have laws, religious and cultural codes of conduct to avoid too many riches and wealth in a few hands. And ultimately restricting greed.

So greed is highly acceptable when on an individual level but extremely and highly unacceptable on a social level. Whereas I would like to think that greed is just another step in the ladder of materialism, but I would not be wrong in saying that it has now become a basic component of our DNA sequence and emerges as an inevitable state of mind in the pathologically psychological human communities.