GREED!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I guess all we need to "survive" is a tent a gun and a coleman stove? Can I be in charge of what it takes for your survival? Im having a tough time believing your seriousness on this one.

I'm just giving the literal sense of what "greed" really is...

Didn't say I agree with how people act/treat it.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I'm just giving the literal sense of what "greed" really is...

Didn't say I agree with how people act/treat it.

[Ban Hammer 13,427]

I'm furloughed and am barely getting by....

I'm trying to get a new job but things are tough. I've been looking 5 months.

have you considered the military?

[Heracles 417]

I'm furloughed and am barely getting by....

I'm trying to get a new job but things are tough. I've been looking 5 months.

You guys should look at moving to AUS. What field are you in?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

You guys should look at moving to AUS. What field are you in?

Landscape Architecture / Planning. I'm definitely up for relocating outside the US but would like to hang on until my wife has citizenship so we don't have to go through the process again.

I had a friend who went to Perth and things seemed pretty good there. He's actually working in Vancouver now. Obviously our profession is loosely tied to the development slump that started in 2006.

To Charles:

I'd definitely go the military route if push comes to shove though I think my wife might kill me.

Anyway, trying to look at the bright side at the moment. Architecture related professions have an unemployment rate of 20 something percent right now so I'm happy to still have a position.

[Heracles 417]

Landscape Architecture / Planning. I'm definitely up for relocating outside the US but would like to hang on until my wife has citizenship so we don't have to go through the process again.

I had a friend who went to Perth and things seemed pretty good there. He's actually working in Vancouver now. Obviously our profession is loosely tied to the development slump that started in 2006.

After it's all said and done, you should seriously consider AUS. Construction there is booming and has boomed for the last 15 years. Landscape Architecture is extremely important for their towns and cities.

[Texanadian 10]

let me reprhase.

Greed is a desire for more than what is actually needed.

Therefore just because you 'earned' it, doesn't mean you need it. In a technical sense if you are 'earning' more than you actually need to survive than it's greed by default. Your services should theorhetically be sold for less to meet your needs to keep it from falling into the greed catagory.

By that theory, anybody making more than minimum wage is being greedy. Anybody who owns 2 cars instead of 1 is greedy. House? How dare you? An apartment will suffice just fine. What kind of society do you get when you aim low? A society of poor people who don't advance. Lack of new inventions. Lack of better inventions. No need for a cell phone when a landline does the job. No need for a Porsche when a VW Bug does the job. Greed could be defined as building a swimming pool when there is a lake/river/ocean within an hour's drive.

Let's take a common product we all use. Insulation. Somebody had to be greedy and try to sell more product by designing higher R-value products out of different materials. Why? We already had R-5 and R-10. But somebody decided we needed R-40 and R-60.

Bill Gates could have retired a multi-billionaire 20 years ago like Paul Allen did. But he chose to continue on, becoming the world's richest person for many years. He most certainly was earning more than he could spend year after year. But what is wrong with that? The world is a better place because of Gates. Obviously for the advancement of technology. And now for his charitable works. There is no way he could have funded his charity work without being "greedy" in order to get that much money in the first place.

The greed of the rich in material possessions is what helps make them affordable for the poor. Things like air conditioners, heat pumps, personal computers, TV sets, washing machines. These were products that only the rich could afford initially. But as they bought them up, the products became affordable to the less wealthy.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

By that theory, anybody making more than minimum wage is being greedy. Anybody who owns 2 cars instead of 1 is greedy. House? How dare you? An apartment will suffice just fine. What kind of society do you get when you aim low? A society of poor people who don't advance. Lack of new inventions. Lack of better inventions. No need for a cell phone when a landline does the job. No need for a Porsche when a VW Bug does the job. Greed could be defined as building a swimming pool when there is a lake/river/ocean within an hour's drive.

Let's take a common product we all use. Insulation. Somebody had to be greedy and try to sell more product by designing higher R-value products out of different materials. Why? We already had R-5 and R-10. But somebody decided we needed R-40 and R-60.

Bill Gates could have retired a multi-billionaire 20 years ago like Paul Allen did. But he chose to continue on, becoming the world's richest person for many years. He most certainly was earning more than he could spend year after year. But what is wrong with that? The world is a better place because of Gates. Obviously for the advancement of technology. And now for his charitable works. There is no way he could have funded his charity work without being "greedy" in order to get that much money in the first place.

The greed of the rich in material possessions is what helps make them affordable for the poor. Things like air conditioners, heat pumps, personal computers, TV sets, washing machines. These were products that only the rich could afford initially. But as they bought them up, the products became affordable to the less wealthy.

Your exactly right. The trashing of rich people by the left seems to be working. What I find ironic is most people that do this are also trying to make more money. Envy is an ugly thing.