[Packratt]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (castille,)
Just to explain it a little better (well a simpleton would've got it, but I guess you didnt): Greed is simply about wanting something that could have been given to others.

So your computer. You're using a computer. Why? African children starve, while you tap away on your keyboard. Do you know, if you sold your computer, you could feed a single child for the next 4 years?

The greed in you refuses to do this. You want your computer, your luxury food, your clothes, while children starve. You could sell your clothes (you just need 1 pair) and feed more children, but your greed hangs onto it.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Hmmm... Not to argue with you necessarily... But just to bring up a point.

I can assure you that the computers I own are not worth that much in market terms. They are the pieces of garbage toss out by others that I have made whole again. So, as such they have no real value to a capitalist.

Yet, many of these pieces of trash I save have been given to those who could never afford to type away on such 'luxuries' by capitalist means in the hopes that these 'luxuries' will grant them the ability to learn 'necessary' skills that may or may not help them help themselves out of their situations.

So, my computers might actually have the potential to feed children eventually, though not by the means that you are thinking of...

In other words, it is not greed that motivates me to use computers.