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Envy was also always related to greed. You seem to want a society where envy is absent, but greed drives economic growth. That won't happen.
by littletimmy 11y ago
Envy was also always related to greed.
You seem to want a society where envy is absent, but greed drives economic growth. That won't happen.
- logicchains 11y ago>Envy was also always related to greed. They're related in that they're both pejorative terms for the act of wanting something, but their meanings differ. Envy means wanting something 'cos other people have it, greed means wanting something for some intrinsic property of the thing. E.g. if I want to get rich so I can afford a hundred hookers, coke and pizza a day, I want that for the intrinsic satisfaction those things bring, not because I care about having more hookers/coke/pizza than anyone else.
- littletimmy 11y agoI am not sure that the psychology of the hairless chimp makes this fine point when it is thinking about those two things. I think it goes "I see. I want. That thing shiny. That guy have - why I don't have?" But I get your point. It is another trick of the rich to use religion to solidify their wealth. You want what I have? Sin! I want to enclosure more land? Not sin.