Has one of the 7 Deadiest sins gotten us to where are now? GREED

Or is it simply waste, lack of seeing the "big picture", or other??

Greed - excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness: "Having lost all sense sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more" Ephesians 4:39

After watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kim Kolciak pulled out her J.P. Morgan Black America Express card in which members are required to spend a minimum of $250,000 a year. I began to wonder what someone could buy with $250K a year. For $250K, you could get a new house every year, you could buy several cars (or one luxury vehicle). What I'm noticing is that the $250K, spent by celebrities, heiress, entrepreneurs is jewelry, clothes, exotic trips, and mistresses, are items that don't return value/ items that depreciate.

$250,000 could buy at least 5 homes for homeless families, $250K could put food in the mouths of several homeless people, $250K could be mortgage payments for families that are now unemployed, BUT to spend it on clothes, shoes, purses that will never be worn /or worn only once, spent on jewelry, and other material items. I understand that if you work hard to get the money then you are entitled to spend it on what ever you see fit... but it makes me wonder how you can justify blowing money with so many needy people around you, with so many tragedies around, so much hate and destruction. It saddens me to think that there are Black Card Holders out there that don't give from their heart - their contributions come from not-for-profit benefits held by colleagues that they want to impress or simply for tax right off... not much thought given to the cause.

I'm not a fan PETA, I watched on those HBO documentaries; there was a meeting on how to stop people from having turkey for Thanksgiving dinner... I'm not sure how much money was spent on the campaign but what if that money had been used to feed the homeless, needy, the unemployed... instead of coming up with ways to stop people from eating meat... why not come up with ways to feed people... spend the money feeding people with animal free products. Isn't it easier to simply provide a solution?

Mark 8:36.. what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the word, and lose his own soul.