we'd love to live in a world where people pursue employment due to interest and/or a drive to make the world/economy better We do, and in fact it is necessaril

we'd love to live in a world where people pursue employment due to interest and/or a drive to make the world/economy better We do, and in fact it is necessarily so. See "Invisible Hand": (the following is a quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand ) the invisible hand was created by the conjunction of the forces of self-interest, competition, and supply and demand, which he noted as being capable of allocating resources in society. This is the founding justification for the Austrian laissez-faire economic philosophy, but is also frequently seen in neoclassical and Keynesian economics. The central disagreement between economic ideologies is, in a sense, a disagreement about how powerful the "invisible hand" is.