Forum Post: Decrease Greed from a 10 to an 8 and the world changes
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 10, 2011, 11:51 p.m. EST by Mjollnir
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Decrease greed from a 10 to a 9 and the problems go away. Decrease greed from a 10 to an 8 and the world changes. Decrease greed form a 10 to a 7 and we will be in the undiscovered country.
The same way you regulate medicine in this country. Doctors are liscenced by the state, which includes an ethics board, if you break the ethics code you are blocked from ever practicing and are NOT protected by the government - Physicians, while still flawed are a model of ethics in the country. Lawyers, who are self liscenced, are a disaster. Why do we not hold those that control the health of nations to the same ethical code that we hold for those who control the health of individuals? In medicine there was a time when it was well known that doctors were mostly focused on profit and not health, proper legislation changed that. Health corporations are NOT held to an ethics code, thus they too are not ethical - strange, a strict ethics code with clear and real penalties actually works. Think man, think
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How do you regulate greed?
A. Men.
You are right, it will never be eliminated, at some level greed is healthy. That's not what I am saying (read above again). However, excessive greed is a toxin to functioning societies ( you can argue that one with me if you like - for example the king of England around the time of the revolution was very greed - probably too much so, and people had enough). The current Fox news distortion is than ANY decrease in greed is impossible. it IS possible, we have already been there in the US and it exists elsewhere. Its a testament to the brainwashing that some can't think outside the cable box. Please, pause and think.
Changing the world IS ambitious though.
Greed will never be eradicated, it is an ingrained aspect of human nature not a byproduct of capitalism. Rather than holding onto naive overly-idealistic notions we should be offering up real plans and solutions regarding how to bring about the changes we wish to see.
But I admire your ambition ;-)