Gandhi isn't simply telling us that greed is bad—he's drawing a sharp distinction between *sufficiency* and *excess* that most moral arguments blur together. The real sting lies in his assumption that Earth's bounty is genuinely adequate if distributed fairly, which means our scarcity is manufactured, not natural. When a child goes hungry while grain rots in a warehouse, or when we hoard resources "just in case," we're not responding to genuine shortage; we're surrendering to fear and appetite. That reframing moves the problem from "the world doesn't have enough" to "we've chosen not to share," which is far more uncomfortable because it makes each of us answerable.