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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I genuinely think it's definitely not most people. And most people aren't greedy.

But living in a society where the power is with the small insane minority who is greedy and blind to consequences will make a society in which even non-greedy people end up making "financially smart" decuisions (read:selfish gain at the possible cost to others, like cheap items despite knowing they come from countries with very badly exploited workers).

But yeah, I'm honestly of the opinion that we genuinely have only one massive problem on this planet, and it's the psyche of these money/powerhungry fucks. And while it might be somewhat common — ambition is not be frowned upon, as long as you're even vaguely moral — the truly pathological version comes when an ambitious psyche is twisted by our already somewhat twisted society.

Here's a nice piece from a self-confessed money addict, former wall street trader. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html he's also written an entire book about it.

So what could be done about this? Well, it's genuinely an addiction and lack of empathy. Do we have any medication with anti-addictive and perhaps empathy-generating qualities?

We do, actually. They've been under lock and key for almost 100 years, because they're potentially the antidote to the ills of our world, and the psyches of the powerful fear such things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathogen

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/antiaddictive

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