Harry Guerrilla
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Exactly, an excessive amount. You believe that $75k is an excessive amount? And of course, if 5 billion pink ponies existed, most people wouldn't have one because of greed, so no, we wouldn't all be riding them around while farting rainbows.
Who decides what's excessive?
You, me, democratically?
I can promise you one thing, no one will give us a fair definition to excessive, because it's subjective.
For me, $75k is excessive.
If you account what I earn, in benefits and wages, I'm making $30-35k a year, $75k sounds quite excessive to me.
The ideas behind capitalism may have existed for ages, but it certainly hasn't been practiced that long. For instance, it wasn't but a few centuries ago that private property was even acceptable for the great masses of people in Europe.
It's been practiced since man made the first trade.
Private property predates Europe, ancient burials show that people, even commoners where buried with personal possessions, for the after life.
They thought they could take it with them.
Yes, "necessity is the mother of invention"... not "greed is the mother of invention". I don't recall ever hearing that.
Greed is a natural response for humans.
We wanted to secure our lot and we did, quite successfully.
We still do, to this day.