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What if you're Joe and you want to own more than the rich guy? Wouldn't that make you greedier than him?
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Your level of greed depends on your financial wealth/possesions. For example, if a financially struggling individual wishes to save up for a car for his own needs, and as a result, saves all his money for himself, this might be considered as greed by due to his selfish want for more money/possesions. Does society frown upon this guy? Some do, some don't. Relative to a rich guy, he's not being greedy, because he would consider a car to be quite inexpensive and essential, and so that is defintely acceptable. Someone who is much poorer, struggling for food, would think the man is being greedy, as he used the money to buy just a car for himself, when he could have used it to feed them. Basically, rich people see richer people as being more greedy, where as rich people see poorer people as being acceptable. By rich, this means someone who has alot of possesions/money at a given time. Now let's say our financially struggling guy decides to save up for a lamborghini rather than just a ford, then would he be more greedy than the richer man who has a mere porshe? No. THis wouldn't make him more greedy than the owner of the porshe at the time. But if the man were to eventually save up and buy the lamborghin somehow, then when he exceeds the wealth of the porshe owner he becomes more greedy. Until then, he has a desire to be more greedy than the rich man, rather than being actually more greedy.