{"id":81707,"date":"2025-04-17T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81707"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:39:54","slug":"the-curse-of-pleonexia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/17\/the-curse-of-pleonexia\/","title":{"rendered":"The curse of pleonexia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleonexia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains the word pleonexia<\/a> like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pleonexia, sometimes called\u00a0pleonexy, originating from the\u00a0Greek\u00a0<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:\u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u03be\u03af\u03b1\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%BE%CE%AF%CE%B1\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u03be\u03af\u03b1<\/a>, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to\u00a0greed, covetousness, or avarice, and is strictly defined as \"the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A surfeit of pleonexia is the cause of most suffering in our society.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Hat tip to PSR in the comments on this blog<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia explains the word pleonexia like this: Pleonexia, sometimes called\u00a0pleonexy, originating from the\u00a0Greek\u00a0\u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u03be\u03af\u03b1, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to\u00a0greed, covetousness, or avarice, and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/17\/the-curse-of-pleonexia\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81708,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions\/81708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}