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.