Ambition, greed and the crisis that has been shaking
the world  

 
There is a difference in the meaning of the words ambition and greed.

The dictionary Oxford defines the aforementioned words:

Ambition - : 1. [C] something that you want to do or achieve very much. 2. The desire or determination to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.

Greed - :  1. a strong desire for more wealth, possessions, power, etc. than a person needs.  2. A strong desire for more food or drink when you are no longer hungry or thirsty.

This subject comes because of the economic crisis that has been shaking the earthly society over the last weeks and spread the fear of a generalized recession which always ends up affecting the poor.

Many analysts from Brazil and abroad have associated the origin of this crisis to the greed of CEOs of great banks and people in general who saw in the speculation the possibility to get richer.

Greed has stimulated investments without due guarantees, which has taken to insolvency or giant losses of Banks and companies in many continents on Earth.

In the analysis of specialists it was sought, correctly, to distinguish greed from ambition,

Well, the longing for a better life, social welfare, the desire to progress has no problem. The Spiritist Doctrine, for example, considers it something normal, inherent to the human being and which carries out, consequently, the material progress of society.

Ambition is, according to the economists, the engine which moves the capitalist society and, in this sense, no repair can be made to it, just remembering that the man is not, in fact, owner of anything, but only a user of goods that one day he will have to give back, when he returns to his real life, when he will carry along only the acquired knowledge, the virtues and nothing else.

Greed is different from it, which best definition, according to the dictionary; it’s indeed a strong desire for more wealth, possessions, power, etc. than a person needs.

It wasn’t, then, with no reason that the Church listed the cupidity– the ambition for wealth – as one of the seven deadly sins.

When the man understands the meaning of life and the real objective of our passage in this corporeal experience, it’s evident that situations like this one will no longer exist. Of course we are far from that, due to the general inferiority which characterizes the planet. However, surely, this day will come and people will understand, then, that the search of happiness must be something natural that doesn’t harm anybody and be direct consequence of our work.