If desiring more than needed or deserved, be it wealth or anything, including unwarrantable supremacy over others is greed, then greed is the parent of all evil. "If I can't have it, you can't have it" - that mentality, leading to lack of generosity, baseless rivalries, and of people being the moon and still jealous of the stars are all figurative offsprings of jealousy, and jealousy comes from greed.
Greed breeds a resentful desire of what's possessed by others, therefore envy, another offspring. Once envious, one tends to harbour a hateful regard for everyone else's, hence hate, and the hateful deriving malicious enjoyment from observing the misfortune of the hated, causing the hated to be vengeful. See how connected hate is to greed?
From the lineage of greed is hypocrisy and sycophancy, creating judases, and all who betray their beliefs, going around lying like 'talubeh yangtangho,' just to be in the good books of the prominent, putting their interests before their consciences... I think it's even safe to associate the violation of the seventh commandment with greed; y'know, carnal but greed still.
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