http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HGQHgeFE
What exactly is greed?
Is it wanting to take that which you don't have from others, even though you don't appreciate what you do have?
What is poverty?
Is it not having what you desire or disdaining what you do have because it's less sensational than that which others posses?
What is happiness?
Is It surrounding yourself with property or immersing ourselves in humanity?
Why should we covet when we, so many times fail to share what we already have? Would we hoard what we would obtain or grant the access we would want for ourselves?
What is equality when we have skills that others do not?
Is It access to something that some do not desire for? Is It opportunity which others feel no need to utilize? Is it an existence which all feel entitled even though they would gladly refuse the same to others?
Greed is wanting more than you need and more than others have
Poverty is being unable to obtain what you need.
Happiness is being satisfied with what you have.
Equality is knowing that everyone's opportunities are similar and outcome depends on how we use them.
What was your reason for asking and answering those questions? I suspect you have a motive and that it's nefarious.
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No I'm a humanist that is strictly as non materialist as I can be. I have a duffel bag of clothing and a laptop. I drive a truck and think most of what people call necessities are in fact luxuries that they can easily live without, but they want them all the same to occupy their time between bragging about what they have to others and ignoring society altogether.
I just wondered who here would lean towards the "I've got to have this new bobble" and who would go for the introspective and personal side of the equation. Is that nefarious enough for you?
P.S. Those were not answers. They were options. I never siad you had to use any of them.
Ok, I didn't know where you were coming from. It may be because I'm on another list where a member loves to ask benign-sounding questions and then goes into a rant, mostly about the need for laissez faire capitalism.
Lois