I may have discovered a word that is apparently missing from the English language.

Pleolexia is the condition of being greedy, based on an ancient Greek word. (Apparently greed is not new.)

Pleolectic is the adjective.

But what about the one exhibiting this characteristic? What do we can him, her, or it?

Pleonect seems like the obvious choice, but even Google has no prior awareness of the word. The Lumo chatbot thought it was a reasonable form, but had no evidence of its use.

Used in a sentence: Pleonects are enemies of humanity

Everyone already knows that greed is the main problem with human beings. But somehow they don't seem to register that the richest among us are, basically by definition, the worst cases.

Oligarchs, plutocrats, broligarchs, all of them, the pleonects, they should be ashamed of themselves.

There is no other way to say it. They take more than their fair share, and it is not taken from nothing.

Real zero-sum "games" do exist, in case anyone may be thinking that it is possible for the poorest to live, while the rich are partying. That the wealthy fly around in jets DOES make it more expensive for others to simply get to work.

No, those who take more than their share, take it from somewhere, from someone, and it is not right. There is a reason that we dislike pleonexia when we see it. It is odious.

It is shameful. We must point that out. Announce it to the world. Shine our lights on it.

That pleonects exist at all, tells us about our base nature, not about our humanity.

That they would rise in a society, is an index on the justice of the society.

That they inhabit the realms of social and political power, should set off all of the alarms.
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