ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Greed has a strong biological basis. However, it has an even stronger social basis. This sets it somewhat apart from self-preservation and reproduction.

Detailed explanation-2: -Far too often, greed comes with stress, exhaustion, anxiety, depression and despair. In addition, it can lead to maladaptive behaviour patterns such as gambling, hoarding, trickery and even theft. In the corporate world, as John Grant wrote, “fraud is the daughter of greed.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Greed arises when we have some deep unmet emotional needs, and we try to meet them by seeking objects that cannot achieve that. But sometimes those objects can provide us with a psychological substitute of what we need. They can provide us with a temporary sense of joy or happiness.

Detailed explanation-4: -A person who signs up for government benefits like food stamps that he doesn’t deserve and didn’t earn and who then sells the food stamps on eBay to get cash. A person who steals the Christmas decorations that his neighbor put out because he wants them but doesn’t want to buy them for himself.