One of the major life lessons I've learned from spending years in the billing department of a major corporation is that greed is entirely unrelated to a person's financial situation.
Depending on your economic/psychological outlook, you might be inclined to believe that greed correlates to poverty (the desperate unwashed masses!) or to wealth (they must be greedy if they've got that much and they're not giving it away!), but I view it more as a function of personality. It's similar to mood - individual instances of good or bad fortune may cause you to temporarily swing in one direction or another, but overall, some people are just naturally cheerful and some aren't.
Another essential life lesson I've learned is a corollary to the popular witticism "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" - just because a conspiracy theory is true, doesn't mean you're not crazy for believing in and talking about it.
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