"We are all used, all users. With luck, the final tally approximates a balance in our favor. But I think you are one of those who calls the proverbia… - Matt Hughes

"Are you familiar with Wallader's theory that every society is fundamentally organized around one or another of the cardinal sins?"
"I believe not," I said.
"He argues that the true seed of every culture, whatever the ideals to which it gives lip service, always turns out to be one of the seven mortal iniquities identified by the ancients: pride, greed, and anger are the most common; lust, gluttony, and envy less so; those based on sloth usually do not last."

I cannot comment on your beliefs. What appears self-evident to one person may seem to another observer to be entirely the product of an idiosyncratic bent.

The commerciants of Olkney were renowned for their egalitarian spirit, judging rich and poor alike solely by the weight of their purses.