A bit of context for the current day user of this word, suddenly depressingly handy in our world of Gates, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Murdoch, Koch, Leo, Crow, Bloomberg, Kushner, Mnuchin, et als.

And a five second bit of etymology because sometimes that shit is very interesting

It must be the idea of snatching it from other people so that you can acquire and hoard 100,000 times more than you need that makes it so irresistible to these rapacious motherfuckers.