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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
It's only greedy to want to keep what you have if you already have too much. And if you want things you need and don't have, that's not greed.
This raises the questions of what is "too much" and what is "need" and who gets to decide the answer to those questions.
If one guy says to another 'you have ten cars, six yachts, three mansions, and seven ivory back scratchers, ditch something so me and my family who all lost our arms and legs in a lawnmower factory explosion can eat for a year', that's not being greedy. If the guy comes back and say 'no fuck you i'm keeping it all because it's miiiiiine', then you wouldn't think that's being greedy?
Sure, that's greedy, and it's also quite non-general. For example, I suspect that Sowell would claim that his statement is based on circumstances within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean. He probably wouldn't say something like his quote if he were trying to characterize circumstances that are many standard deviations from the mean.
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