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Greed is not the problem, and trying to avoid it is going to frankly impossible and would require a degree of control that honestly none of us should want. The
by Guthur 6y ago
Greed is not the problem, and trying to avoid it is going to frankly impossible and would require a degree of control that honestly none of us should want.
The problem is that the individual is not being greedy enough for their own control. They are being greedy for many wrong things, not exclusively but many.
This problem is solved with education not control, which is what stallman had tried to do. People should understand what they should be greedy for i.e. protect at all costs
- amirkdv 6y ago> The problem is that the individual is not being greedy enough for their own control This might be stretching the definition of greed as it's commonly understood.
- Guthur 6y agoWell if we are making acting in your own best interests defined as greed, which is all that corporations are doing, then I think it's a fine generalised definition to say protecting your own control is greedy as well. Edit: for clarity I not implying negative connotations to either side. I think corporations are doing exactly what they should do. But I also think people need to be more responsible for their choices and the consequences thereof.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoEducation won't help with systemic problems. Even if individuals would be equally, ruthlessly greedy as corporation, you're still talking about uncoordinated individuals taking on a money making megamachine. Living by greed in the market economy is an exercise of exploiting a positive feedback loop. Larger entities benefit more from it, and the larger they are, they more they benefit.
- Guthur 6y agoIn a market economy you are free to not use their product. No one is forcing you to use Apple or Google or Microsoft or whomever. The problem is that there are political entities that can be manipulated to give unfair advantage and or effective monopoly control by making that cost of entry so prohibitively high. Education will ensure people will understand that political entities are no more inclined to have your best interest at heart than a corporation, there both made up people it would be moronic to think they'd act any differently.
- SuoDuanDao 6y agoDoesn't this assume these same political entities won't be manipulated into giving unfair advantages to educational approaches that benefit the manipulator?
- Guthur 6y agoOf course. It's patently obvious that the current education systems pander to interest groups that are not necessarily in the best interests of the recipients of said education. Educational policy is not exclusively for the benefit of the recipient either intentionally when pandering to teacher unions or unintentionally when said policies set targets that drive the system in the wrong direction per Goodhart's law.
- einpoklum 6y agoInterest, will or passion are not "greed"; you're over-generalizing its meaning.