“... and his response was “Greed.”
No, it’s the other mortal sin, “ENVY”.
These leeches are failures and they envy the successful and they’ll do anything to bring them down with their warped sense of “justice”, which to them means equality of results.
Tocqueville put this “disease” in very eloquent terms...
“There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”
That’s just the thing. He’s NOT a failure. He has a very successful business. No one in the family can understand his thought process other than to say liberalism is a mental disorder.