Monday, July 13, 2009

Simple wants, simple needs, simple greeds

Simple wants, simple needs, simple greed. Food, clothing, water, shelter. Better food, better clothing, better water, better shelter. Wolfgang Puck, Abercrombie, Figi, Mansions. People start with needs. What you need to survive. What you need to live on. Then once their survival is secure, one begins to move toward wants. They can afford better food, perhaps go out every once in a while. Their clothes become a bit more spiffy and commercialized. Water stays about the same, buying the occasional Ice Mountain or Dasani. Finally they can afford a nicer place. Leave the slum that they lived in and move into a respectable living environment. Then comes greed. You fill your cabinets and fridge with high price high quality, organic, vitamin filled, 20% less calorie, real sugared food. Going out becomes more consistent. Chipotle, Olive garden, and Boston market become a simple lunch. Then high priced grilled up to perfection steak houses, and Mexican cuisine that taste so fresh they said it was caught five minutes ago restaurants become more constant for dinner. Regular water turns into mountain spring, purified, purified again, vitamin filled, fresh, cold, 5 dollars a bottle water that I guess just tastes that much better. Who needs a house when you can have a mansion. A kitchen with ever cooking tool one would ever need and more, a living room with the finest flat screen plasma, blue ray television one can buy and a couch that doesn’t look too good, but the amount you paid for it says otherwise. And then you have a room for your shoes. Gotta have the room for your shoes, it’s a must. It’s all a must. You don’t just want it, you need it. Now your need, has become your greed.