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Selfishness and Greed

ME ME ME

“How does this help me?” “Wait what do I get out of this?” “Of course I deserve it” “I want it” “I NEED it” “Just give it to me!”

Dictionary Definition:

Selfishness: concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others.

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This has become the attitude of our modern world, especially in Western civilizations. People concentrate on themselves—having an inward focus. This is because people think in the short term, how this will help them now, not how it will impact others later.  Slowly, over time, people have become more selfish and greedy and there are major repercussions. When someone takes more than what they need someone else will always miss out. Whether  the poorest in the world, suffering from huge in equity, or something much smaller, there is not an unlimited amount of space, an unlimited amount of resources or an unlimited amount of time.

There are countless problems in today’s world: ignorance, sickness, disease, unemployment, poverty, wars, and environmental destruction, the list going on and on. Are these problems caused by the lack of something? Our world is seemingly very productive, in an average year farmers produce about $ 143 billion worth of crops and about $153 billion worth of livestock, just in the U.S ("Major Crops Grown in the United States."). The problem is not in how much we have of something – it is in the distribution. Why does this distribution become unfair? Because people put themselves first and take more than is necessary, being selfish and greedy. Wars are started to obtain what the other country has, habitats destroyed to gain resources, industries and corporations don’t always do what’s best for people because they want to make money. Because they want to make money.