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like, i get your point but i think you're wrong.
people are greedy because it worked well for them in the past. i.e., people have built empires and expanded them throughout history and because sometimes that worked out well for those people, they think back fondly of it and that's why you have people trying to become "great empires" today.
it's not that complicated, people have a cultural memory that reaches far back for hundreds of years at least. it's however also noteworthy that empires are the historical exception, not the rule, like, if you look at medieval europe (which spanned a long time), you had very few "big" empires and mostly small local feudal lords. Because in those times empires simply didn't work out so well. So, people hold the balance between what works and what doesn't, and then that gets done.