Thread: Greed is good
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Old Feb 5, 2004, 10:05 am   #40 (permalink) (top)
castille
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"All we need is a plot of land," shows painful ignorance to the complexities of land ownership. Having a system that even allows for it shows an enormous amount of sophistication.

Then the greed of human nature created such a system. Cavemen got along without any systems. We can live like cavemen if necessary.


Again, implies a complex information network, and more than likely, a system of ownership where a given man or system controls the mill and a given population supplies and rents or uses it. But this is getting away from the point.

No you don't. Just use your hands.


No. You do not hold flour over a fire to make bread.

Yes, you do. You ever made damper before? Flour, bit of water, fire, and thats it. Cook it well and you'll get a rough but very edible bread. When I was 8 I was taught to do that.


Guess what- You can have little luxuries and not be greedy. You are leaving out the whole, "No regard for the method of attaining..." aspect of greed. Greed is not, "having more than you need to survive."

Then it would be greedy to kill an animal to eat it? Or disrespecting the Earth by sowing crops and pulling it out?


Greed is everywhere. And no matter what system we use, we cant get rid of it.


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