Last Updated on August 29, 2023

There were times in my life when I was greedy. I remember when I was young, I went out with my friends and didn’t want to pay even though, at the time, I was making more than any of them.

One of my friends told me that is how you become a hermit. At the time, I didn’t feel bad, but now I do we are no longer friends. I should have paid for the meal. An old Chinese saying says there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Greed has haunted our society like a plague throughout history from the war with the Native American tribes for land, and our greed for oil has cost many lives in the war in Iraq.

Greed comes in many forms from me and the lunch table. To large-scale greed for resources. But what if we weren’t greedy? What if there was no such thing as greed?

We would live in paradise. There would be no starvation or poverty. Everyone would share what they have. There would be no missed rent payments or technology devices that broke.

We would be very advanced technologically, even more than we are now. Computers would be a hundred times more powerful because the greed for profit and hiding advanced technology to release it later or never would not exist.

Sure, most of us can’t stop greed on a mass scale, but we can stop it at a smaller scale, for example, by paying for someone’s meal that we think does not deserve it—opening the door for someone and giving small gifts of kindness to strangers.

It won’t have a significant impact, but It will improve collective consciousness and attitude so that humans can live in paradise in a million years or however long it takes. So be kind for kindness’s sake, even without reward.