Sikh ethical teaching organises daily life around three named pillars attributed to Guru Nanak, naam japna, kirat karo and vand chakko, and lobh is understood in Sikh commentary as the thief most directly capable of corrupting all three at once: greed can turn remembrance of the Name into a transactional pursuit of blessing sought for material gain, can turn honest labour into labour pursued without limit or ethical restraint, and most directly undermines vand chakko, sharing, by hoarding what an unchecked craving insists must be retained rather than distributed.
The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism notes that this triple vulnerability is why lobh receives particularly sustained attention in Sikh homiletic literature relative to some of the other thieves, since a community organised as centrally around communal sharing and service, seva, as the Sikh Panth is has a structural as well as a personal stake in the vice's containment.
Pashaura Singh's account of the Guru Granth Sahib's canon notes that hymns addressing lobh frequently conclude not with a warning alone but with an invocation of contentment, santokh, presented as greed's specific antidote, a settled sufficiency with what one has that Sikh teaching treats as achievable through disciplined practice rather than as a rare, unattainable temperament.