So you’ll end up with a may more passive humanity?
This will probably be impopular, but olease hear me out.
Greed in and of itself is a huge driving force, throwing that away is stupid, channelling it for good is way more smart.
Exessive material greed is evil.
Greed is often related to status as much as it is related to wealth, so what does that mean?
Give people status, rather than pure wealth.
Set up a society where wealth is seen as decadent, but people can gain a lot of status by doing good things.
Embrace naming building, blocks, public facilities, parks and stuff like that after good people, you are a researcher, developing a cure for Aids, you get a medical university named after you, stuff like that.
Embrace one of our most powerful motivational forces, don’t just throw it out.
Its a long list but Id say it basically all leads to Modern technology - by which we can say is partially responsible for modern medicine. Im not sure greed is required for that or will it over all be super beneficial, considering climate change. At least, we have no problem harnessing it and we already do much of what you say. I think we just need to look at what is greed and what is actually mental illness.
Its greedy to want more money than you could ever need. Its mentally ill to want the biggest money number because its super big.
More than that though. When it comes to hoarding there is an emotional attachment. Kind of like when a dog is food aggressive. Hoarders will lash out if you threaten their hoard. Now you might think this makes sense if someone is threatening to take your money but if that money adds no intrinsic value to your personal being its just the same as you freaking out some one took your “treasures” (actual garbage) from you house and disposed of it properly.
So you’ll end up with a may more passive humanity?
This will probably be impopular, but olease hear me out.
Greed in and of itself is a huge driving force, throwing that away is stupid, channelling it for good is way more smart.
Exessive material greed is evil.
Greed is often related to status as much as it is related to wealth, so what does that mean?
Give people status, rather than pure wealth.
Set up a society where wealth is seen as decadent, but people can gain a lot of status by doing good things.
Embrace naming building, blocks, public facilities, parks and stuff like that after good people, you are a researcher, developing a cure for Aids, you get a medical university named after you, stuff like that.
Embrace one of our most powerful motivational forces, don’t just throw it out.
Just trying to think of what greed got us.
Its a long list but Id say it basically all leads to Modern technology - by which we can say is partially responsible for modern medicine. Im not sure greed is required for that or will it over all be super beneficial, considering climate change. At least, we have no problem harnessing it and we already do much of what you say. I think we just need to look at what is greed and what is actually mental illness.
Its greedy to want more money than you could ever need. Its mentally ill to want the biggest money number because its super big.
More than that though. When it comes to hoarding there is an emotional attachment. Kind of like when a dog is food aggressive. Hoarders will lash out if you threaten their hoard. Now you might think this makes sense if someone is threatening to take your money but if that money adds no intrinsic value to your personal being its just the same as you freaking out some one took your “treasures” (actual garbage) from you house and disposed of it properly.