Why are humans greedy? The natural inclination is for a person's greed to over take their will, be it for money, pleasure, and power, and usually to their detriment or even demise.

Many of us never think that we are greedy or acting in an immoral way. For the most part, that's because we are never really in a position of accumulating the kind of money, pleasure and power where greed overtakes our will power and begins to consume us.

This is a moral lesson too, cause we know so many cases where excess has lead to many individual's self-destruction. So what does that mean? Not to pursue money, pleasure and power...well that's just not going to happen.

One way of measuring your greed level is to take stock of what you have, and consider the benefits and detriments of continuing to pursue more. This is where it becomes difficult, cause being objective with oneself is quite the art and likely for most of us, a fruitless exercise.

So are we doomed? Unfortunately, my cynical self says yes...cause humans psyche is so frail that even the strongest among us can be corrupted. In rare cases, some of us may realize the doom in our ways, but hell, it feels good doesn't it!