As much as it is necessary, greed is something very abstract and extremely difficult to prove in courts.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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I mean since we're making up arbitrary numbers why doesn't that bumpkin have a handy firearm? Should raise their number to more than 3.
Interesting thought. However greed is part of human nature, since we humans like to get as much resources as possible.
greed is part of human nature
Bullshit. For a couple hundred thousand years humans kept only what they could carry on their backs. And that only counts homo sapiens sapiens. We only started staying in one place and amassing surplus in the last fifteen thousand years and yet there are people saying "greed is part of human nature."
It's the greedy who somehow managed to sell us that propaganda. Greed is a mental illness.
I don't agree with OP. I don't think more punishments are the way to fix things. But neither is gestures broadly the best we can do.
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Greed has been made the only power/drive of society. That's why. Capitalism is as bad as sith, it's just a different driver.
not sure if related but a lot of ancient cultures have many rules to hold back envy for a more stable society. they can be very exterme leading to say the recent mask protest in iran but current culture might be the other extreme so to speak.
Greed is a form of hate
I disagree, that implies that greedy people care about the people they hurt when that isn't the case, and in fact the opposite is true.
Someone who hates another or others is emotional and passionate about them. They care about how those people are doing, in that they care if they're suffering and want it to be so.
Capitalists don't tend to operate on the basis of hatred at all, it's worse in my opinion, they operate on the absense of caring about how their actions affect others, which is sociopathy. They either are or work hard to conduct themselves as sociopaths, only concerned with themselves, and only sees others as disposable means to facilitate their material desires, with their only fears being personal repurcussians for their antisocial acts, not the actual harm they inflict.
A Nazi that hates Jewish people sees the Jewish people's torment or destruction as their desired goal, their endgame.
A capitalist that kills people through negligence did so to increase profits by cutting safety corners hoping not to get caught, their focus is on getting more money, they likely have no strong emotions whatsoever for the peope they killed, those people's deaths were a "just business" means to the goal of pocketing more money.
Greed's destructiveness comes out of apathy/indifference of the effect ones greedy actions have on others, the opposite of where hatred's destructiveness comes from, hyperfixation on the suffering of others as the goal.