Reply #13: Unbridled greed is the root cause of just about any problem you name

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When we lived in caves, a kind of instinctive proto-greed helped us put aside nuts for winter, but today greed has metastasized into something that harms, not helps.

Some have confused the profit motives and incentive aspects of capitalism with greed, until now in the United States, greed has created a market where the value of a day's work is less than the value of a day's survival - the equivalent of a nuclear bomb for an economy, and a radioactive cloud for the social fabric of a society.

It is greed that creates societies where the masses have nothing to lose, and the small elite class has to spend its money on guards and guns instead of things that would help their families and communities progress.

It is greed that forges policies that kill millions so that a few can profit.

Profit and prosperity without exploitation are possible without losing control of greed, but it would be a rough climb, since we have allowed such a large percentage of the world's resources to be consolidated into such a small (and still shrinking) number of hands.

At some point, will the instinct of species preservation kick in and catalyse a "revolution?"

We better hope so, because greed without limits is not compatible with the long-term survival of humanity.