Greed has negative consequences under a fiat system, but the incentive is actually quite good in bitcoin, since your hoard of cash decreed or increases in value, respectively.

Bitcoin does (or will) heal a lot of the other motives of greed, though, since you can't print it and thus can't fractionally lend it, but I won't say it solves avarice, since that's a human heart issue.

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Generally, I agree with this. But hoarding is only one way greed can manifest. Greed can also take the form of bad business leaders treating employees unfairly, wrecklessly chasing profit, or just straight up fraud.

It’ll happen significantly less in a bitcoin standard, but not zero.