The free market creates WEALTH. Government and socialism create POVERTY
I would add that while the free market creates wealth, the government and socialism confiscates wealth -by force.
I have perhaps a different definition of the word “greed” but I feel more accurate;
Greed is the desire and pursuit of unearned wealth.
OK.
I would say the desire and pursuit of unearned wealth is probably more like theft.
People have bought the Leftist Lie hook, line, and sinker, that free enterprise is all about greed and the government must fix it.
First of all, if you’ll notice, the reality of God-given individual SELF INTEREST is never taught or talked about anymore. We are born with self interest. Without it we would die. Self interest is what makes the world go ‘round and what energizes people to create wealth for themselves but in doing so, unintentionally creates wealth in general (Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”). So the Lying Left and government schools intentionally leave out self interest and only talk about greed as the motivation to do well and make money.
Self interest is healthy and good. The free market runs on and wealth is created by healthy self interest. Leftist brainwashing tries to judge or qualify self interest into “greed”. If someone (EXCEPT for government heads and officials) makes “too much money” they must be “greedy” (equivocal concept and definition the Lying Leftists use, like “racists” and “sexist”). So according to the Delusional Lying left, if you’re not in the government and you “make too much money” you’re “greedy”. Who buys this bull sh#t?
Government schools never teach self interest anymore because individual self interest opposes socialism and government force, coercion, and expansion. So in their own greed, socialist government DAMPENS individual self interest. The less government, the more individual self interest and the more wealth creation.
Meanwhile, the vortex of greed is socialist GOVERNMENT. This is where your definition comes into play as you said, and it goes further because whereas in the free market, buyers and sellers freely cooperate in the exchange of money, government coercion FORCES the exchange from you to them. GREED, AVARICE, and THEFT. Most of it legalized. So the Delusional Lying Left has legalized their own government greed while accusing free enterprise of greed. Hypocrites.