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Rearing it's ugly head

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...