Right, but there's no term for being greedy, sociopathic, or engaging in hoarding in economics.

They fall under Orwellian double speak terms that make them complimentary, "rational self-interest, creating externalities, curtailing redundancies" etc. Language designed to turn their sins into their achievements.

Considering the central prominence of greed in our economy, it's a glaring ommission that the capitalists and economists themselves seem to have forgotten that word, or to create an economic term for greed that isn't complimentary.

They are driven almost entirely by insatiable greed, yet the term is never uttered in their earnings reports or economic news.

They seem to want the concept of greed as the pejorative it is to be forgotten entirely, despite it demonstrably being their core value.

With the amount of people who get manipulated with sales and other tactics I don't think we can argue that humanity is composed of rational economic actors. There are some rational economic actors, but the vast majority probably isn't acting rationally with regards to their economics. And that's okay, because humans aren't rational beings first and foremost. We're primarily emotional beings. We make most of our decisions based on emotions, then we may try to rationalize our choice.

It takes a lot of effort to be rational about things.