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Each of those words may be carrying more load than you intended.

Food on the table — Rice, lentils, peas: not greedy; Beef burgers, caviar, civet coffee: kinda is.

Roof over your head — traditional hut, not greedy; penthouse suite in Dubai, greedy.

A few nice things? So many options. Once was, aluminium and purple(!) both cost more than gold. Is it "a nice thing" or "greedy" for me to fly to some paradise island for a week vacation? Or to own a fursuit? Or a normal suit? Or to get an electric bike instead of a manual one?

(I'm in favour of raising everyone to the level of current royalty; I think this can be done without wrecking everything, but we have to solve some problems first).



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