NEED OR GREED? – Consumers Association Penang

(Cartoon illustration via Health and Happiness)

Greed, the insatiable desire for more, is the disease of discontentment. “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction,” writes social psychologist and philosopher Erich Fromm in Man for Himself (1947).

Greed can consume our thoughts, actions, and ultimately, our happiness. Live on just enough. Learn how to separate need from greed. The most dangerous thing to want is more.