many people believe that greed, or the desire to have more wealth than other people have, is a bad characteristic; people who are greedy are often considered selfish or unkind. However, some people argue that greed is actually a good characteristic for a person to have because greedy people will work harder than others to become successful. Do you believe that greed can be a good characteristic? why or why not? Use specific reason to support your answer.
Greed, or the desire to have more wealth than other people have, is a controversial issue. Some people argue that "Greed is good". In my opinion, I believe that greed is bad for individuals, businesses and the community as a whole. I feel this way for several reasons which I will explore in the following essay.
First of all, greed could be detrimental to the individual. A greedy individual would be fixed on gaining as much money as possible, which could lead them to utilizing unethical behaviors to achieve their goals. People who evade taxes are a compelling example on that. Some individuals prefer to get their compensation for a job in cash, which allow them to avoid paying taxes on this income. Moreover, some business owners could report losses on their tax return to even get more deductions. I agree that seeking self-interest is a good thing but not greed. Greed connotes a sense of unfairness, which means that someone wants to get more than they are entitled to, mostly with immoral means.
Second, covetousness is absolutely deleterious to businesses. A company which dedicates all its resources to making the most profit would not have the same motivation to invest in research and development as a company which is concentrating on helping their community and the humankind as a whole. To expand more on that, investing in innovation is risky in nature. As a result, a greedy company would try to avoid losses as much as they could and would be reluctant to invest in advancements in their realm. On the other hand, a business which has a mission, vision and a plan to make improvements in their field for the benefit of our entire species would delightfully fund research to discover new technologies. Pharmaceutical companies is a perfect example on that. Some drug companies spend more on marketing rather than research. They could try to falsely advertise that one of their medications is effective in certain medical cases while in fact, it's not. This dishonest attitude stems from greed and desire to increase profits without any added value to the product. Thus, this corporation would be less competitive with other innovative companies.
Lastly, greedy companies could negatively affect the whole community or country. Out of their greed, they would charge as much as they can for their products even if the product was not worth the amount of money paid by consumers. An increase in prices without further increase in the value of products could lead inflation.
In conclusion, encouraging people to be greedy in a society could lead to unexpected consequences. this notion makes sense to me since allowing individuals to acquire more than their fair share could end up with less appreciation for moral behavior and unjust community.
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Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
... could lead to unexpected consequences. this notion makes sense to me since allowing...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, lastly, moreover, second, so, thus, while, i feel, in conclusion, in fact, as a result, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2336.0 1977.66487455 118% => OK
No of words: 462.0 407.700716846 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05627705628 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8440710089 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52380952381 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 724.5 618.680645161 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.0238671617 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.8461538462 100.406767564 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7692307692 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76923076923 5.45110844103 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.85842293907 285% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235295603026 0.236089414692 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0731053407358 0.076458572812 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0996256334455 0.0737576698707 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163989199765 0.150856017488 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142819670367 0.0645574589148 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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