Which was first??

After a long break on deciding if i really want to actually make a blog on making gold on AH i decided that thats not the best way to look at it.

Still, i feel that some of my "experiences" must be shared, so here i am..

I was getting some bear with RL (and also WoW) friends, and let me tell you that we are tackling all the topics , from the weirdest to the hotest. This night we actually started talking about ideologies, and how the are all perfect in their way in theory, and from that we got to the point where we had this trouble getting to the same point. Which was first : Survival instinct or the selfishness (greedy).
While the term greedy and selfish is not equal , in my opinion being greedy = selfish while selfish =/= greedy.

There are a few cases to study here. One is when the resource in discussion is unlimited.
Unlimited is a relative thing. Universe might be unlimited in our eyes, but in somebody elses eyes it might be just a tiny part of the infinite alternate universes. The resources are of two types: Needed for survival, and luxury.
A luxury by definition is : an economic good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises; contrast with inferior good and normal good.
In case of needed for survival this is in WOW the gear you need to actually perform into an dungeon, and luxury are all the "petlike" items. So basically people will attempt to become more aggresive on items(goods) needed for survival.
However they become greedy rather when the item is of no use of survival, but rather a luxury. And the selfishness is an side effect of that. (i.e. the less for Onyxia at 80 the better)

The other part is when resource is limited. In WoW you can't see this often. You can see rather an incredibly rare thing like items received during festivals (as Brewfest or Hallowed) that are usefull for survival in raids. Just remember how many "ninjas" where shown during the Hallowed .

One other case in WoW when greed is shown at its best is pictured best in this following incident that happend long ago to some friends of mine.
One of them was lvl 60 rogue and he was boosting another friend of ours that was lvl 36 priest on some STV quests. At some point they invited an warrior in party because he was doing the same quest and the xp was better with another one of the same level (36). At some point the Green Tower droped. Of course the best one to use it was the Warrior, but would you let an occasion like this to get a free 250+ gold (in vanilla wow this was a lot) or would you give it to the warrior. Ofc my friends both needed it and won it and kicked the warrior out after.

Greed won over social skills, friendliness or anything else similar. And the freaking shield is only pixels in the end :)

I hope you enjoyed this post.

Have a great week,

Observ