Greed is easily defined - it's when somebody takes more than is good for them.
Nature is excellent at defining such things even if people have trouble with the concepts. Nature simply kills them off if they take more than is good for them. Like irrational exuberance, it's not easy to identify greed until after the event. When the person dies, we can look back and say, yes, that was greed. If they are fat and happy until hit by the proverbial truck when they 110, we can reasonably say they were not greedy even if they weighed 140 kg and couldn't walk up stairs or even get out of bed.
A fat greedy person scarfing down another bacon and sausage pie and nutritionally bereft, while they choke back 30 fags a day, is not long for this world.
<excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
<<How can we define how much a person needs or deserves and what is excessive?>> >
While it might be difficult to get it just right, each individual had better do a reasonable job of defining how much they need and deserve or they are likely to run into fatal problems. "We" don't need to bother with what other people do in regard to themselves, but if they are taking from us more than we find tolerable, it's time to get the pitch forks and sickles and head for the palace and provide a morality lesson in "greed" to the rulers and courtiers.
I'm sure you spend a good portion of time figuring out for yourself what is greedy and what is not. I do.
Greed is the root of all evil, not money, or the love of it.
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