Former hedge-fund trader, Sam Polk, explained: “In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. […] I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.” This man’s experience shows that our excessive greed is why we can never be truly happy, as we’re always left wanting more. Take Pandora’s Box, a tale of a girl who is disobedient and opens a box that unleashes all that is bad into the world, such as hatred and violence, the last thing to come out being greed, symbolizing that greed is essentially the root of all