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Greed Is Gross: How the Cult of Wealth Corrodes Democracy, Community, and the Soul
Paperback
PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 25 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Greed has always been condemned as a vice. Modern society has transformed it into a measure of success.
In Greed Is Gross, Zoë Roberts examines what happens when the desire for security, prosperity, and achievement becomes detached from purpose. Greed, she argues, is not simply wealth, ambition, or self-interest. It is a pattern of compulsive accumulation in which more can never become enough.
Moving from individual psychology to corporations, workplaces, politics, communities, and the environment, Roberts traces how this pattern becomes institutionalized. Companies reward extraction over stewardship. Executives claim the gains created by workers while wages and benefits remain inadequate. Wealth becomes political power. Communities are treated as markets, employees as expenses, and the future as a resource to be consumed for present profit.
Yet this is not an argument against prosperity, entrepreneurship, or success. It is an argument for restoring the distinction between wealth that serves human flourishing and accumulation that exists only to reproduce itself.
The alternative to greed is not deprivation.
It is stewardship.
It is the recognition that wealth is a tool, ownership carries responsibility, institutions exist for purposes beyond their own expansion, and a healthy society must eventually be able to answer one simple question:
How much is enough?
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