Well, OK. Mankind has always been short of saints, of whatever denomination. But two human constants are greed and oversimplification. The closer a person grows toward wisdom, the further away the need for "stuff" (though we have to pass through a time of stuff-ownership to realize this.)In "Cool Hand Luke" the warden and Luke have an interchange that sums it all up for me:
"Cut the heads off parkin' meters? What'd you think that was gonna get ya?"
"I guess you could say I wasn't thinkin', Cap'n."