Many people believe that greed, or 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 because greedy people will work harder than others to become successful. Do you believe greed is a good characteristic? Why or Why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Greed is considered as one of the seven sins of human and the prompt argues whether it is a sin or not. The prompt states that people who believe that greed is a good characteristic believe that greedy people are more hardworking because they want more money, whereas people who believe that greed is a bad characteristic associate greediness with selfishness and unkindness. Personally, I believe that greed is a bad characteristic for many reasons. I will explore these reasons in the essay.
I agree that greedy people are selfish who are driven by money and the primary purpose of their actions is to become wealthier. Consequently, they lose focus of more important things in their lives like family, friends or health. Let us consider a business person who works round the clock because he wants a higher bank balance. As a result, he leaves home at the break of dawn and reaches home late at night and thus, spends very little time with his family. In such a scenario, he is only concerned about himself and is not paying attention to his family. His children are devoid of a paternal presence in their family. The selfish nature of the business person to earn more money leads him to digress from his family.
Moreover, greedy people are highly likely to be deceitful. They would do anything to make more money. To illustrate this point, consider the numerous scandals that we see in the news everyday. Scandals on financial frauds and corruption stem out of greed for more money, and sometimes more power. The only reason that these people get caught is because they are never content with the money and power that they have. When one is content, they are less likely to cross moral and ethical lines in their lives. Greediness leads to blurred moral lines and hence, leads to unethical behaviour.
The prompt suggests that greed is a good characteristic because greedy people are generally more hardworking that people who are not greedy. I disagree with the statement because when we see greedy people in leadership positions, they are rarely hardworking. They tend to exploit the people who work for them by forcing them to work for extra hours and hence create a toxic work culture. In such a scenario, the greedy leader might see success in short-term but eventually, his/her greed will be the cause for his/her tragic downfall.
In conclusion, I think that greed is a bad characteristic because greedy people are driven by money and they are likely to deceive the people to get that money. Moreover, rather than being hardworking, they exploit the people who work for them to be successful.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, hence, moreover, so, thus, whereas, i think, in conclusion, in short, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 15.1003584229 185% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.0286738351 199% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2182.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 447.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88143176734 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59222824287 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.460850111857 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 672.3 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4009146995 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9166666667 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.625 20.6045352989 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.16666666667 5.45110844103 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.85842293907 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388773253739 0.236089414692 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110839088332 0.076458572812 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122707045894 0.0737576698707 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255898936843 0.150856017488 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126923237014 0.0645574589148 197% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 11.7677419355 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 10.9000537634 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 86.8835125448 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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