Greed is a negative word and frequently used to misinform the ignorant. For example, if you work your backside off to get ahead and make a decent amount of money, the government (and the pope apparently) calls you "greedy" On the other hand if you're a government demagogue who has never worked a day of your life in the private sector and you're calling for those who do work to "put some skin in the game" you're not greedy even though you're stealing from those who earned it. Likewise, if you're a worthless drone who by choice sits around, drunk, high, watching daytime TV, smoking dope and cigarettes, scratching off lotto tickets and squirting our dependent children to get a bigger check, why then you're not greedy at all.
The use of the word greed in the context that the pope and some of the posters here use it is an absolute moral inversion of the reality.
To the liberal - it is competition that is their greatest fear and is the root of all evil. Greed is the concept that is slipped willy nilly in the space between competitors to explain why one entity is strong and another weak. It is the apple on the Tree. Envy always hides behind a mask. It passes itself off by appeals to fairness, equality, or whatever explains away its insidious motivations. Greed is Envy’s most talented lie. A strong corporation shares whatever it itself considers the excess profits of its labor - by paying for executives and all others under its employ with big enough salaries to attract better ones than the competition. Building a strong and highly competitive corporation is one of the most virtuous activities of man.
The wealth gap can be explained in America as the result of citizens having become satiated - not with excellence, but with laziness. When the government and not the freeman controls the stepping stones, all paths are marked “Bovine only.”