The pathology of greed (#1036)

Yes, I am equating greed to a disease. Somewhere somehow our sense of patience has failed to stall or deny the effects of greed on many of us. Greed has become an acceptable emotional disturbance when applied to economic systems. It is often confused with Capitalism. I am all for capitalizing on an idea that improves and progresses our society toward betterment. I am not for capitalizing on ideas for the sake of increasing one's greed. Motivation for a better way of life is understandable and promoted as healthy minded, however our society has not placed limitations on capitalism in order to keep it within the overall concept of it's benefit to society. It has been allowed to grow into a greater paradigm than actual living souls. That greed has a part in that cannot rationally be questioned. The concept that enough is just where one starts from is being treated as a principled given. Encouraging a system of accumulation as a greater ideal than living in the reality of what that does to all of us. Any promotion of a greed based economy has no long-term life expectancy. If too few have too much and those who are many have only a little there will be a reckoning toward relieving this tension. Life is a gift and as such should not be a burden. Our own natural instincts direct us to care for each other and be curious about our existence. No where in our natures is the need for being greedy, yet we have a system of economics that perpetuates and glorifies overabundance for some and tough luck for those who don't. Like economics is the tell-all of who and what we are. Simply, a system that is rigged toward those with privilege and less principled ideals, economics is just a pattern for the effects of greed to multiply, a breeding ground for the continuation of greed's perpetuation. Capitalism has better pages to write in our history but until it is freed from the grip of greed it will surely continue to suffer the perception of it's greed based ill effects.