QWAK,R U GREEDY?
 

QWAK,How much is ENOUGH? There is about 1 oz. of GOLD for each person on Earth so is 10 oz. enough? 100? What about SILVER? 50 oz. 5000? At what point have YOU got your fair share and are taking what others will need?

Is it just as much as you can posably get? If so, then are you contributing to make this world WORSE rather than better? If it IS just as much as you can get then is it realy any diferent from FIAT?
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How much is being GREEDY?

the DUCK

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Grew up 90% of the time with one pair of shoes and that is a question it doesn't appear that I will ever have to worry my perfect mind about. By the way, from the numbers I have crunched it appears that there is about 5/8ths of an ounce of gold above ground for each of the 6.5 billion of us here on olde terra and about 3/8th of an ounce of silver; though I belive that silver number must be higher.

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If I do not hoard PM's someone else will. If it ever gets to the point where owning a few ounces of gold or silver makes you a rich man I would have no problem helping the less fortunate. The sheeple have no interest in PM's right now and it is up to us to keep as much as possible out of the NWO types hands.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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If everyone actually wanted ther 1 oz., just how much would gold be worth???

Besides one could ask the same rhetorical question about FOOD.....
You gonna start going hungry every day, Duck???? Most in the 3rd world do....
(fat, greedy duck.....)

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(fat, greedy duck.....)[/quote]

mmmm tasty, love duck!!!

Isn't it Duck hunting season?!




sorry duck, couldn't resist!!!!:Sorry:

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I'm using PM's to eventually pay off my mortgage and have a decent stash, no greed here.

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No greed here. I'm just buying some of the junk silver that the :sheep: don't want. When the time comes that they decide to want it again, then I'll be happy to sell some back to them! :beer:

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That's so nice of you to keep some PM's stored for future buyers Weatherman.

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QWAK,LOL Aparently I pressed a fiew buttons. :chat: I diden't say "U R GREEDY" -- but it did get a defencive reaction and some fast justification of somthing that needs no justification. I supose because of the way we have all grown up relating to money and welth yet almost none of us actualy delt with REAL MONEY -- GOLD, so it became sort of foreign or taboo rather than the acepted norm.

Strange how the bankers have managed to turn our minds around and made just plain old "SAVING in HARD CURRENCY" seem like a BAD thing calling it "HORDING" and implying that it is harming or depriving others when THEY the BANKERS charge every one intrist on nonexistent money and no one thinks twice about that.

People SHOULD have SAVINGS and should only raerly barrow but the bankers have made doing that virtualy imposable other than by owning physical GOLD and SILVER and made doing that seem wierd ,strange and some how antiesocial like we are "GREEDY MISERS" hording and constently counting and recounting our coins!

Diden't mean to step on any ones emotional toes, IT was just a passing PONDERING thought.:wink:

the DUCK

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Duck, maybe one emotion stonger and more primal than greed (no , not lust you dirty girties:rofl: ).
Fear.
You have a wife , kids etc and see the writing on the wall , you get scared.
If you make more frn's than you need on a get-by basis, and you're losing faith in paper stuffs and paper(/electonic) systems, and scared of the inevitable end result , you convert them into more silver or gold or other real assets.
What else would you do with them?
You accumulate as much as you can of that which you believe will protect you.
If the lazy and the ignorant and the jealous and short-sighted want to call you a greedy hoarder, so be it.

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QWAK,momopanda,The need to SURVIVE is basic to every living thing, even plants store up energy and pass it on to future generations in their seeds!

Today it is almost as if WE are the LAST GENERATION and most act as if no SAVINGS are nessary or that having SAVINGS is somthing strange.

Perhaps at some subliminal level people know that a massive change is coming and the "LIVE for TODAY" montra has more meaning than we realise? HUMmmmmmm

Just some more pondering.:proud:

the DUCK

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All I know is that when I sell silver & gold, I do not pay capital gains.....

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If there was 1 ounce of gold for everybody in the world, and everybody had one ounce and once ounce only, gold would be worthless.

Like any other money, gold is only valuable when it is trading for things.

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Duck - I have often wondered the same thing but in a slightly different way - "how much gold and silver do we need?"

If we have an ounce - does it do us any good, or is it too little to matter?

10 ounces?

50??

I do not think I am greedy and, when the time comes, I will be one of those helping others (I already have some stores of supplies to do just that).....but I have no way of knowing if 10 ounces, 20, 50 or even 100 of gold (so something similar in value in silver) would really make a difference if TSHTF.

All I can do is keep building - along with food and supplies, ammo, water purification and nuke medicines.

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QWAK,Master_Ho,Realy good answer and sound thinking but then it is almost identical to my own so I guess GREAT minds think ALIKE! ?? HE HE HE:emotions16: :albertein :proud:

I expect that in the future the ones who did NOT save will scream "GREED" of any who do hold physical GOLD and SILVER when in reality it was their own foolishness and ignorence that allowed them to sell them selves in to debt slavery and the poverty that comes from living beyond their means.

It is always interisting to PONDER on how we define things and how others may have OTHER definitions for the same things.:thinkey: :laugh:

the DUCK

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Yes - almost identical - I think something in the way it was worded got a few people taking it personally rather than intellectually.....in fact, when I tried a similar post a few months back, I got a bunch of people accusing me of trying to find out how much they have and (I assume) where they live.......like I am travelling halfway acroiss the country to rob someone! (Oh, I have no doubt some people do that on boards like this - but it was not a question about THEIR personal assets.)

MAYBE its because, so many threads here, deal with people's take on their personal assets.......so they take it personally. Unless people actually come out and ask me what I have - I don't take this sort of question as a personal grilling.

(And I do not have anything - and I have a killer parrot, killer cat and killer wife protecting my nothingness!)


I agree - and too bad for them!

There is a general mindset that has grown in this country in the last few decades that people "deserve" whatever.....the government should give them, if people have it and they do not that its ok to steal it........self-responsibility is disappearing and maybe, this is a good thing coming (as bad as WTSHTF may be) because it will serve as a giant wakeup call to people who right now think the most important thing in life is American Idol or Paris Hilton! (When, we all know, its Britney!)

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Greed is good.
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You could look at gold in another light. Money is in a sense, energy. In gold that's even more true--it is representational of the oil, water, labor, and time to mine it which cannot be counterfeited. Other monies are this as well, but are of various soundness.

Here is the moral part: when one has energy, they can direct the energy toward their own desires, to use for the benefit of all, or to the benefit of themselves first, which usually equals the detriment of others, then their environment, and later, themselves as well although they fail to see their responsibility for how the world and their lives have fallen. Without the energy, you do not have the option of controlling your environment, with the energy, you do. What you DO with this power is the real question, not whether you collect energy initially or not.

If you are of good mind, it would be a positive thing for a moral, well-meaning person to have energy, be it in Yen, dollars, or gold, for they could thereafter direct this energy to help their neighbors and the world. If they intend to help themselves first and likely leave the world a worser place, it hardly matters whether the person holding the energy-representation-unit has it in gold, dollars, Euros, Pounds, or lead.

--Hopefully not lead, in fact.

R U Greedy? That has nothing whatsoever to do with how much you own. It has to do with what you DO with what you own.

TS

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QWAK TS, :congrats: :proud: It is much more important WHY we do things then the things we actualy do! You show that you have both INSIGHT and UNDERSTANDING and with EMPATHY and COMPASSION would likely use your POWER to help make this a better world! :applause_ :clap2: :coolbeer: Thease are all GOOD (GOD) qualities and show an INLIGHTENED spirit!:grin: :thumbs up

the DUCK

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I dont consider it greed one bit.

Is it greed to put your FRNs into a savings account? Whats the difference? I mean, yeah I have a savings account. But I also put some of my money into AG bullion as a secondary savings.

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Simpleton - excellently said - I was sort of trying to say the same thing but you stated it much clearer!!

Well done!

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Greed is not about how much money you make or how much money you have saved.

It's about personality and not dancing around the golden calf.

To be able to see what's important in life....except for gold & silver & hoarding metals.

At least that's what people want to hear.


Now, when will i fill that new wooden pirate-chest with silver.......hmmmm

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If survival instinct is greed, then I'm greedy I guess. I tell ya what, I lose a lot more sleep over the prospect of dollar devaluation than I do over the sin of avarice. Mostly it's because of the collossal greed of TPTB that we have to worry about this at all.

Anyhow I put no upward limit on how much is enough. I guess if I had enough tonnage to be able to move the market price at will that would be enough. LOL