If greed disappeared would it solve 95% of our problems?

If we legalized all drugs & sold them pure/safe/cheap (like the cost of sugar/flour).
Crime would drop 50%+ overnight. Homicides, theft, overdoses all would go down by at LEAST HALF.

Instead we got politicians talking about launching military strikes inside Mexico. Humans are just barbaric greedy Monkeys who stupidly want to solve problems with fists & sticks.

So sad.

But WHY r they greedy? For money, yeah? Then WHY do
they want money? To satiate their ego or pride, yeah?
Buy more stuff. "My stuff's better, bigger, more than your shit."
"My shit's stuff, and your stuff's shit." -- G. Carlin
Nyah, I'm better'n u r. Nyah! Pride, get it, PRIDE!!!

Greed wouldn’t be the only thing that has to disappear, perhaps just being a reflection of everything else that should disappear, but won’t.

I say 95% of problems are each their own unique problem to be solved and are challenging. A lot have no answer and may never have one.

If anything, greed helps fuel the need to solve problems.

no, cause if you remove greed there is still blood thirst.

medidedicated said:

If anything, greed helps fuel the need to solve problems.

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The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.
Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit
Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.
"Wall Street" (1987) -- Gordon Gekko

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The paradigm for 1980s AmeriKKKA. Then began a rabid swing toward right wing, fanatical corporatization of the country. Everybody took it wrong. Oliver Stone meant it as bad. It was his criticism of corporate AmeriKKKa. He didn't mean it was good, but because of the inherent nature of human greed, every greedy bastard in the USA took it for how Gekko meant it in the movie. Fiction, satire, social commentary, not to mean how we're supposed to live and thrive.

Nope, greed isn't good, it's not the "fuel", it's the sludge in the fuel filter. Short-term, maybe it is good, long-term, you'll wind up losing more than you thought you'd gained. The transfer of our corporations to foreign lands (China and Asia) has wrought the situation this country suffers today. Short term the CEOs bought a lot of yacht, long term, we got a dumbed down nation of people who won't work and couldn't work if given the chance. Slight the education of our people for quick money, and that yacht and island, and to hell with the next generations. Proud of yourselves, are ya? Ya got yer yacht, and yer kids are in Harvard. Good fer YEW! You worked so hard for it.

doughper said:

The paradigm for 1980s AmeriKKKA. Then began a rabid swing toward right wing, fanatical corporatization of the country. Everybody took it wrong. Oliver Stone meant it as bad. It was his criticism of corporate AmeriKKKa. He didn't mean it was good, but because of the inherent nature of human greed, every greedy bastard in the USA took it for how Gekko meant it in the movie. Fiction, satire, social commentary, not to mean how we're supposed to live and thrive.

Nope, greed isn't good, it's not the "fuel", it's the sludge in the fuel filter. Short-term, maybe it is good, long-term, you'll wind up losing more than you thought you'd gained. The transfer of our corporations to foreign lands (China and Asia) has wrought the situation this country suffers today. Short term the CEOs bought a lot of yacht, long term, we got a dumbed down nation of people who won't work and couldn't work if given the chance. Slight the education of our people for quick money, and that yacht and island, and to hell with the next generations. Proud of yourselves, are ya? Ya got yer yacht, and yer kids are in Harvard. Good fer YEW! You worked so hard for it.

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I did not mean literally, more like advances in science and society. Imperialism. I see the globe as open capitalism. People filling in spots that someone else will just fill. Things that cannot change but removing greed itself won’t solve.

There aren’t any major break throughs in science lately, we are flattening out because the easiest has been figured out and the challenges are setting in that the world as a whole was always welcome to propose a solution if you can even think of a valid one.

AI, nuclear fusion and quantum computing sure but what about the rest. Capitalism provides incentive was what I meant. Running through fuel now we are in a race to the next energy resource which nuke fusion has no pollution by products.

Those are my thoughts, I do not mangle in politics, this is philosophy and just was answering the title. I should of elaborated though haha, not trying to make greed sound good.