You say you want to experience high end content, and that is what raid guilds are good at. If you want to make friends, the guild isn't going to help you with that.. you're on your own there. Simply sharing a guild tag with 150 other people doesn't automatically make them your friends.
You mention people "thirsting for loot" and "forgetting about common decency".. care to expand on that with specific examples? Most guild loot distribution is pretty fair from what I've noticed. If you're talking about non-raid farm groups and stuff, maybe you should look at it from their perspective. I don't farm cash camps because I like it, I do it because there is shit I want. Farming is like a job. If I showed up to your job, wasn't needed, and contributed very little, and then asked for 1/2 your paycheck, you'd probably find that unreasonable. That is what it is like when you expect to be included in some stranger's farm group simply because you share a tag.
Want to make friends? Start your own shit. No one likes and unnecessary mooch, but everyone likes someone who gets things going. Asking for help when it only benefits you makes you look greedy, but asking for help when the people helping can get something out of it is going to make you a popular guy. Most people are going to exclude you when they're farming because they don't want to be an ass and tell you they don't need you, and you'd just cut into the efficiency of what they're trying to do (e.g. get a specific item, or make some plat), but I doubt they'd care if you let them know you just wanted to hang out and didn't care about the loot.
I personally don't think it is inherently greedy to not want some random new guy to cut into your bottom line when you're trying to farm. We all need plat and all want new items, and if you expect to be included you need to bring something to the table. I've been duoing with friends and had some random person hit me up asking if we wanted to team up and take a harder camp with better loot... doing that made sense and the player asking was bringing something to the table. If that person had just been like "hey, want to unnecessarily turn your duo into a trio?" I'd have probably told them to kick rocks.
Your issue seems to be that you expect others to make sacrifices for you simply because you share a guild tag, when what you should really be doing is finding ways to make yourself a valued addition. Raid guilds deal with raiding.. make yourself valuable on raids and you're kosher as far as the guild is concerned. If you want to make friends and get included in non-raid stuff though, you have to give people a reason to include you.
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