Catholic theologian William T. Cavanaugh posits that the disembodied vice of greed is not so much what ails our society as it is an economic system based on detaching people both from production and consumption, leading to some pretty un-Christian modes of living. He says that no person really wants to impoverish a single mother in Latin America in order to buy cheap clothes—we are simply too detached from the process to be bothered by the unjust realities that we engage in.
