How to get rid of greediness when you have enough?

More money allows me to help more people. The ability to make more money was a tremendous leverage during the pandemic when there were a lot of people in need. I wouldn't have been able to help were I not in a position to help.

This allows me to launch people into projects so that they become independent, cast a safety net for people so they get a better job, pay momentarily for rent so people don't fall in a vicious circle, buy gear for someone to launch something, pay for legal fees so that an 18 year old kid doesn't get their life ruined just because they had a lousy lawyer, pay for medical exams, pay for a travel to get to a job interview, help people in the arts when there were no gigs, put a new entry on someone's IMDB, help people fix their cars because they'd be out of a job and they're flying on gas, or pay for training. Word gets out, you help even more people. You get organized and run it like a payroll plus one offs.

I deploy most of what I have, then I don't have enough, and this drives me to make more.

It has always scaled to my means, from the time I was a kid with more lunch money helping one friend to now making it possible for more people to have a better life, so I don't think I never will be in a position of having enough. I'll always be greedy.

I ask myself this question, "Who am I trying to impress?" It's a useful question to ask oneself because once you've got enough that you don't have to worry about not having enough, trying to get more is mainly about showing off. At some point you need to accept that you've got enough unless you want the rest of your life to be a series of pissing contests with people you probably don't even admire, let alone like.

By realising that by doing so you are operating at the emotional level of a baby.