Greed-Driven Failures

Comments in this cluster overwhelmingly attribute the cause of a business or project failure to unchecked human greed, which overrides reason and leads to reckless decisions.

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Sample Comments

tgv • Apr 5, 2022 • View on HN

Unchecked greed, that's how.

williamsharris • Sep 17, 2021 • View on HN

The greed makes you do crazy things.

mensetmanusman • Aug 19, 2024 • View on HN

Human greed knows no bound, surprised it wasn’t factored.

pixl97 • Aug 6, 2025 • View on HN

Greed makes no sense, yet here we are.

viklove • May 21, 2020 • View on HN

You're forgetting about this thing called greed

dmead • Nov 2, 2013 • View on HN

someone's bad at being greedy

jqpabc123 • Jan 10, 2024 • View on HN

So greed isn't always good.

mike00632 • Oct 6, 2021 • View on HN

In this case greed is pretty clearly bad.

speckledjim • Jul 29, 2011 • View on HN

It's all about money and greed. Sad indeedy.

Kayem • Oct 2, 2009 • View on HN

Anything run by greed is crash-prone.