There's never been a time when people were not greedy.

The "suddenly, people started being greedy" meme doesn't make much sense.

Nah. There was this time when egg farms got greedy and raised the price. Then they became not greedy again and it's fine. Similar situation with software engineers. They got greedy and salaries went up. When they become less greedy, like rights now, things go down a little.

People have indeed always been greedy, but the greediest are becoming more wealthy and powerful by the day.

The point of the comment was not to present a full description of either position. It was to point out that everybody here is just going to reflexively provide their partisan answers to this question.