greed is a sin and I think it's bad. People today are so greedy with their money and their time that they don't even want to help those less fortunate. They won't give 1 hour of their time to volunteer to a cause or $1.00 to buy someone a loaf of bread. Ot's all about "me" instead of what can I do for others.

Its bad, its one of the deadly sins. From those sins all others come from.

Greed is definitively bad, my friend. I don't know of a definition of this word that can ever be misconstrued as good. Greed is not synonymous with ambition or anything remotely positive.

in most cases greed is negative. but without greed, where would our world be today? if we never faught wars to claim land or felt the need to want more... the world never would have progressed to making faster travel, better service, more convience and most importantly... progress.

Greed is bad in most minds. Even if greed means something good to you, you will likely not be able to change the minds of enough people for them to think as you. Believe me. I have tried!

Greed (for money) is always a bad thing for the person involved, those affected by it and for society itself. People often use the excuse that greed encourages innovation, exploration and ambition but this is just them trying to justify behaviour that they know is bad. Without greed there would still be innovation, because most people that want to push the boudaries of human knowledge have little or no interest in money, so really has no effect on them (it's only the people that finance them that tend to be the greedy ones, and those can easily be got rid of by the introdusction og government grants for innovation). Exploration may, at times in history, have pushed exploration, but without it people would still have been curious about what's out there and would still have explored without the greedy people pushing them (some may use the ocunter-argument that greed pushed them to do it faster, but this is false once again, as even if it had been done slower, which I doubt, it would still have happened eventually and so the argument that it pushed exploration faster is moot). The argument that greed pushes ambition is just where they are thinking about the ambition to rise up the corporate ladder in order to get a bigger pay packet, yet many of the most sucessful businessmen became sucessful not through their greed, but through their dedication and love of their areas, they would have done it for nothing in many cases. The only thing that greed really pushes is selfishness and not caring for others. It encourages the attitude of "the ends justify the means" or "it doesn't matter what you do to people, as long as you get the money from it", neither of which is a good way of thinking. People will point to greedy people as being sucessful with large houses, large bank accounts, flash cars, etc but they inevitably end up having all these things with noone really to share them with (they may well pick up a partner along the way, but either that partner is only with them for their money, or if the partner is with them for love, then they inevitably ending up leaving them because the greedy person spends more attention on the object of their greed than on them, therefore will invariably end up leaving that greedy person, so leaving them alone), plus greedy people tend to only have friends that are going to help them in their business and don't really care about that person at all. One of the things that most people manage to get wrong is that they commonly misquote it as "money is the root of all evil" when the correct quote is "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil". There is a big difference, because by loving money, they rarely have room to love anything else in their lives (including themselves, let alone anyone else).

It's bad, but greed is not the same thing as acting in your own self-interest. There are situations where generosity or even self-sacrifice are in a person's own self-interest. I don't believe it can be said that social progress has been built on greed. Built on encouraging people to act in their own self-interest, sure. But not necessarily built on greed. Greed is the desire to deprive others of physical needs for your own advancement. If you believe it's necessary to behave that way to protect yourself, you're just paranoid.