That would be greed. It's out there, it's everywhere, and it's not only tempting and addictive, but highly dangerous. Right, enough hyperbole and superlative. At my core I find myself as being a bit of a socialist. I think that everyone should have what they need and not at the expense of others, and I view the socio-economic disparities that we see in the US and Israel (among other places) to be indicative of having at the expense of others. I would argue that this goes up to the level of nationhood as well (although that's for a post on politics and not economics), whereby every "people" is entitled to at least a little slice of land to call their own. I have no problem with capitalism, but rather I think it should be tempered with a dose of socialism. Or maybe vice versa. We're thinking about buying a plot of land. That in and of itself is a huge undertaking in Israel. What we're looking at is half (a quarter dunam) of a two-family p...