do you think people are getting greedier ? and just want more and better things

People are exceedingly greedy. Just look at the way people lose their shirts in the stock market and in casinos when they become too greedy and forget that there is a thing known as rational thought and gravity. One of my best friends makes a living out of people's greed. Somehow he manages to get people who are otherwise respectable and logical and in prominent social positions to forget their common sense and get blinded by their greed and invest in whatever scam he's running at the time. Look at the Nigerian Internet/Letter scams. Come on, these guys are only in the game because people are so desparate for quick, get rich promises and they get so consumed by their greed that they allow themselves to be guilled by confidence tricksters of the worst sort. People are greedy and somehow greed has a way of overcomming common sense. No wonder why people end up getting miserable.