[southernplaces7]

>a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed

As opposed to all other forms of financial mediums of exchange and money? I suppose they magically don't bring out greed in people? I never understood this notion of some mysterious, ambiguous "greed" demon that's only triggered by some X thing that someone naming it personally dislikes for some reason or another.

People are just people, trying to improve their state in life and using whatever new tools and resources exist for doing so, and in some cases having higher or lower levels of aquisitiveness based on their personalities.. Their levels of greed don't magically explode because some specific new thing comes long. Amusingly, it's common to see certain behaviors named as greed by people who think their own specific and subjective idea of how much another should want is correct. This of course is usually self-serving nonsense.