The. Busy all ringback busy. All i had a strange dream. I was walking through a world. Beneath a dome of glass. And through chambers of splendor. Filled with so many objects. I saw miracles of human skill. In florida speed seemingly. But it appeared they were searching for something. Strange creatures. The world is in a big mess the more they get more they want. President bush after 901 im certain i urge all americans to go sharpen this but it would still make me money if the thing in me i grew up in the way that i was still made money even if i was never. There is some money which is to say. There arent enough people think that. Thats what the Marketing Strategy is is that it always turns you should begin to. Mention is one of the humans of my nature green. Evolution has shown us times and as long as this mechanism doesnt become too dominant it will miss the goals of the individual it perfectly as individuals. To hold to survive today id go so far as to say its a symptom of an all nice. I wonder. If world viable form of wife. Mamie for just a novel was sure a flash in the pan would be set in right next to the dinosaurs of the cartridge museum. I kept asking myself. Why are we like this. Caring and compassionate. But were also eco centric and reckless. And we hoard and. We create. And destroy. What is our problem. What drives us. I went in search of answers. I am i am. A man of a set the crossroads i think a historical moment the physical environment is undermined to the point where we need to attend to it war is something we ought to think about why does that happen. People are pervasively happy on top of all of the we keep building walmarts. I see insatiable greed. As an extra connected to all of these other difficulties that if we dont recognize and come to terms with were literally putting our species are at risk. You know you might us to talk about darwin if youre asked to talk about there are one it has to be about evolution evolution is an idea the darwinist trying to understand and whats his strikingly original proposal. Natural selection so. To moose or on the one hand very similar to all other forms of life and that we share a basic biological predisposition toward survival but on the other hand were so smart that we actually recognize we exist. Then the point here is that being alive and knowing it is grounds for great joy. On the other hand it also carries a very terrible existential burden if you know that youre here you know that someday like all living things that you wont be here if thats all we thought about im going to die i may walk outside and get hit by a meteor we would be paralyzed by abject terror. And what human beings did is to construct and maintain what be after paul just today call culture and all cultures offer some recipe for immortality. Either literally through the heavens and after wives and reincarnations of all the worlds great religions or symbolically through the belief that some fasted show of our identity will persist over time never the less. Thats why you want to have children thats why you want to build pyramids thats why we want to write great books and some phonies thats why we want to have a lot of money. Human beings are motivated. A lot of stuff because psychologically speaking of yourself. They may be able to look for over. Desire greed and the struggle that brings about anger and aggression from the philosophical but this will suffocate perspective are all or result in states of a person consistently trying to look at what is not true. We talk about 3 fundamental truths that things are important. Secondly the fundamental principle of everything is said to be and to thats. The but now what happens is we try to build something that makes us forget about us we try to make things. That struggle creates the. Suffering. We begin to hang on to think. Ill give you an example you know if i have a shirt. And every time i go out to do some shopping you buy and at the shop you may have 12 in your closet but youre by the 13th just so that you have a sense of you live long enough to wear altered in shorts or perhaps even more than that so theres a sense of every day consistently doing something because of which we may be able to more solidify. Our sense of immortality our sense of living continuous need not changing and thats trial who consistently have been some only snow horses and the prominent one of them becomes the. Death is a very real physical phenomenon and it doesnt matter how good your some balls are your religion your politics your money theyre still symbols and none of them will be sufficient to minimize death thanks id or rather to a woman aging you can reduce a but you cant get rid of it. And then finally just really to make matters worse we also dont like the idea of the work its. From a starkly biological point of view were not all the much more significant or enduring than lima beans 0 armadillos. Of the human and the. More than 7000000000 of us populate the planet. Designers designers are. The secret 6. Masons clemente you know develop instruments to measure greed is a personality missed and also to elicit a state of grief in people mentioned in ireland. Yet surface its. Got to say its a long this is the balloon task we use it to measure our test subjects willingness to take risks of the subject to try to keep inflating a balloon because a large of the balloons of the more its worth via a beer in it and in each round the subjects play for real money every time they inflate the balloon that theyre risking that it might burst and then their money would be gone. But its i could list weve been able to demonstrate that people who tend to be greedy and i are more likely to take risks when performing this task so they inflate the balloon further the new normal test subjects of my life and i suppose. Is they all and we see that people who tend towards green i also demonstrate an altered brain response. In decent coffee say in this graphic we see how our brain responds to rewards and the punishment. So far weve been able to demonstrate that the more greedy the tests are correct so the weaker are the punishment signals associations and false acknowledged. By is the interest and thus that what is interesting is that these people will tend to want to maintain that state even the classic experiments of older 9 years on the brains dopamine system experiment very interesting in this respect is the problem even system. If electrodes are implanted in exactly this region of a ransom brain time. And the rush is then put into a situation where it can stimulate the dopamine system directly by pressing a lever like in the us. And the rats will continue pressing the lever until they die is it caustic or. And this is presumably one of the biological mechanisms that helps explain excessive bring. Here in iran. There you go. You can have 2 ok. Really quickly though you already have 2. Most primates are highly social but these guys are a typical in that theyre also highly tolerant. There is a hierarchy and everyone knows whos on top and the individuals at the top get more. Males get more meetings females get more access to resources but you dont have this really steep hierarchy where there is one individual at the top it means everything and you also see some things that you dont necessarily see across the primates like respect for possessions. So we can look for instance at how do you respond when you get more and i get less how do you respond when you get less and i get more and thats tractable to study experimentally. Guys. So the experiment itself is very simple take 2 monkeys or 2 apes sit there next to one another and you interact with them sequentially and what they have to do is a very simple task so you give them a token they return it give them the food reward for having completed it. But then the critical component is how does this individual respond to that medium preferred food like a cucumber a piece of bell pepper when their partner get something much better. Not. See this. That could be due to inequity. Be due to hey look my partner got Something Better than me or it could just be due to general sort of greed for lack of a better term hey theres a better food out there and i want to. From an evolutionary perspective the behavior that we consider greed which is acquiring as many resources as possible is important. Most animals live more at the margin than modern western humans do so not acquiring as many resources for them as a real risk of death. In human societies so my perspective is that green has taken on not just acquiring as much as possible but acquiring as much as possible explicitly the expense of other individuals. And i dont think that thats something that you can apply to animals. One day narcissus came upon a spring that was so clear that he could see himself in it as if in a mirror. When he saw his own reflection he fell in love with its beauty. We too like to see ourselves as the center of the world. The individual is now the measure of all things. And so we are in for recognition and self esteem. Recollect relationships photos and likes s. U. V. S show records. We like narcissists. Addicted to our own ego. Being successful in business and not. And when you have it you can be able to take things to a level that people will be surprised how much sense the price this will probably lead to additional places to the Police Officer 700 square meters be flown blame 8 flows well played by local press one doesnt want it above them to those that it will cause you just fight with 6000000 says yeah i heard 2 those thatll be with us as it was going to be it. And. I would tell you my the last of his and simple theres a thin line separating a business man and a criminal wife because anything i do somebody is bunk as if she did it. So all of us has business been throughout the work whether its bill gates. Is a criminals but its because we think beyond other people think president mugabe is my brother former european perspective outby a nephew from awful can be a brother. But they dont have the will of critics the ones that im by the. Burdens of the ugly critics more do was tied with the World Economy would be nice to do that. I wont come to my house i want to show you around as well as the chief ms of it full force on many as. You know. School which is near my old offices they give me and i want for building a school block and then an organization to help us help ourselves on at me for my work for humanitarian reasons so. They give me decide what were disallowed from past on its main focus is to recognise those who have done a lot of work in human rights affirmative action and empowerment issues you know International Aid thats me. In here is my main long. Way here. If you come in. Friends and family. We would do mitch and toss around you know have conversations over its all its political economy and 70. The property has a heavy bed on top so when its cold here we get we do put the heaters so it really has no heaters over here. In this room its called them but the dining room is i am reception in this house this is gone the room i dont visit because gives me that sentimental relationship with the president and. The man that money can buy. And this is it. I know it came from i came from being a vegetable vendor my bad was that the ground or the thick flow thats what i used to sleep with a very poor linen blanket that goes been its me and one on top and that. Is why i want to you know be able to show. I go to leave well tom. With. Things like the racetrack and all other forms of public spectacle are of interest to folks so for so many reasons one aspect of the racetrack is gambling and. Another part of it is to highlight one status relative to one so a fellow human beings somebody is quote better not by how big or strong he or she is but rather how one dresses how you conduct yourself and how you a stablish you are richer than more worthy than and therefore more amusing from than all of the other folks who surround you. In some ways this is no different than dominance hierarchy and crime. We love heroes and therefore become preoccupied with being the best or something even if its how many hot dogs i can eat and 10 minutes. In america where number one not in science or literacy or anything important we are number one in depression or. How could this be what you have to do is lie. Look at Cultural Values to see if theyre realistically attainable by the average individual. If youre a male youre basically valued by how much you have. And this is the socalled American Dream if you work hard enough you can have as much money as well bron james or Warren Buffett or bill gates. Or. Realistic way for every millionaire theres got to be hundreds of fellows some of the people working part time the walmart without if its. The same for women but they have a different cultural burden. We teach women that in order to be beautiful you have to be ridiculously stand your breasts excluded of course so if i can floss my teeth with you youre too fat. And you have to remain perpetually young which of course is biologically impossible. Wow we cherished values are simply not possible to attain. If you say i want to be true to the wont you go to get rid of all the old i. And i say oh im so im talking about im this and i know that i can do this and i can do this oh yeah i did this last year oh i can do that oh im better than he so all those items its egos. Theres a lot of people in thought that he can. Both black and white who carry the eagle badge on them and they carry it high as a flake you see and those are the people who we would see as the future bureaucrats of the country that was. If you are driving into a poor neighborhood where you know people are starving to death and youre driving down with your mistake these bands or your all civilized that is the worst thing you could ever do. Driving with his ego to shea im better than you you know youll never be where i am goes people are not just. My own if i have to leave i have to assert my ego the only way i can do that is through greed im forced to constantly break something to myself that lends stability to my ego reality is that those can be material things but they can also be spiritual things for example ideas like im important or example or somebody due to money or fame or my title or Something Like that our entire modern world is based on. For too much green destroys people why because it isolates obvious and because greed is Something Like a drug you know i have a more i want to have because whatever i have no longer satisfies me this is only so its not what i actually possess that satisfies me its the constant striving for more religion has known for centuries and this drive lies within us humans but this drive is also our really and it is of those of us doubtless just. Since time immemorial there have been stories of people who could never do enough. People like king midas. Diana sr grandma which made everything he touched turned to go. But even his food and his drink turned to go. It seemed he might starve or die or thirst. Golden regions have always been cast under the spell of on the moon it was my turn to. Do what i ask myself and use money such a powerful allure. Ringback help people overcome a us bank avail i chose banking as my career avenue for im a trained accountant and i worked with the earliest balco ogg a bag fast in zurich and on the Cayman Islands which is a tax haven i was promoted to Compliance Officer planning i was the legal conscience of the Company Kingston his own name and. I can be 6 year the a certain amount of greed is instilled into you that was true for me too and i have to imagine thank a lot you start to think only in monitoring you know all cyclical dollar signs that have before your eyes and in your heart all will say the end of that and that the only thing that matters people that i lot of profits and mikey show you dont get the odds are way i operate how to cope. In my life until alls in my function as Compliance Officer i determined that we had a criminal i also. Like and. Largent mexico i was in mexico drugs it became clear to me that i was working for a criminal organization in the bank and it was a participant in tax evasion and from Health Industry into your poke i ended up feeling morally and united given lessons of the matter up with management down management on click. On it all we were threatened and the entire family ended up leaving the Cayman Islands very suddenly. The bank then swiss bankers in the Cayman Islands who have been killed. To an extent my decision to leave the system was a moral issue of the share but what was more important i think was that i realized the system had turned against me for the league in which the for example the threats that were made against me in the Cayman Islands and the way i was fired and then threatened the gamble of the bank would destroy me if i tried to file charges against them and they go quick to go. On top of the bank sent a private detectives after us. One is i was followed on my way to work the i had to change their image i took 2 world changed my work out a signal on the 1st signs of a blank car would upset me i was completely submerged and my even considered suicide they wanted to drive me crazy they want to. Stop a lot of the state prosecutors had all the information but they did nothing with it but the same for me its a political problem why it would make a criminal clients are uneasy and they felt they would realise theyre not over safe and protected either so with that in mind dorothy dont go out to the bank for me 1000 a phone call was to go out to the man who made the truth probably lost their evolve i wonder if the guy. I spent 217 days in prison the 1st 30 days were in 2005 the rest in 2011. By nurse times i was in solitary confinement spending 23 hours a day alone on my salary there were prisoners who flipped asked to stop banging against the doors screaming. To try sort of switzerland to basically every country all day protects their golden calf school recalled in car from switzerland is banking secrecy beotch why no one ever investigated the eunice bank even though the state prosecutors know that unity is bad it helped to c. M. E. Us tax authorities which go so far through coercion and for identical results the state prosecutors would never investigate and if that makes us who. We are following question was how can we create test conditions that would approximate the behavior of a stockbroker for example our laws in this. Functionality we use functional Magnetic Resonance imaging to investigate brain activity in our tests up there is a proof it is when you look deep into the brain of the hour including into the structures responsible for the reward response its your own saw. Our subjects play a stock trading game organisms and have to decide whether they want to invest a large amount of money or a small amount and. Then they get feedback during the game as to whether the share price is rising or falling. Off a sphere weve been able to determine that people who are especially greedy and they display a more muted response in regions responsible for punishment and loss of money if this mechanism enables a kind of disinhibition i mentioned this most i did not intend. One of the one dynamic based on assumption that ordinary and average people would be risk averse is not going to make sense for the finance industry which is optimized for outcome to hire people who are more inclined toward risk by the achievement with bonuses and with talking to the hiring practices and a mission to. Get over it doesnt believe its just a matter of time before the next finance crisis will hit. The. Books. For the 1st place. But what youre looking at is a bunch of ok they did a little. When i started hearing a bug what in buffetts and bill gates world goes on about the 3040. 00 billions but knowledge of into 1000000000 you know in life if you have only a 1000000000. 00 you can be able to leave for 207 to 30 years. And eat or spend 10000. 00 a day. Not many of us do for doing this or the v. A. Is. So if you have good opinion that means you can even spend 30000 a day because no one to last that long but still other people make much more. You know nobody can say i dont want more. People like me dont make money theres no taxes that there never was government to function. So therefore people make money in their book things to happen. And im one of those people. More growth. More affluence more. This is the promise of those who mean well with us. Were only too happy to believe that. We do our part. Well be to buy our sons happiness. Many western europeans and americans they no longer really have a farm belief in god. But you have to believe in something. You know we have these Belief Systems that reduce death anxiety but theres always going to be a rumble of panic beneath the surface of consciousness were going to take this death anxiety and weve got to do something with it and one thing that we can do is by a lot of. By the time you can talk you have already been pelted with commercial images like the nike schecter and the golden arches we know the sublime or the. Our children are growing up in a world that is radically different from the ones that you and i grew up but their brands have been modified accordingly manufacturers of consumer goods they are spending literally billions of dollars to ensure that no child is left behind in the commercial rat race. Or basically in a sense no different than im me us and we are attracted to anything that fosters life and pleasure and were repulsed on afraid of anything that threatens that state of affairs. Shoes and shoes every wish. Sometimes you dont want to let go of something you hate it for instance this will have never won it but i think its been sitting here for like. Still burn you. And this is im done with this one still brand new this one so when this is a design issue i dont want to be limited because in the bible genesis say you must have dominion over everything that gives me that strength. Nobody in the bible i can open it for you nobody is poor. Moses ever hes a rich man in the bible bible does not talk about poverty the bible is the biggest money machine. Every best. Talks about money thats something that people need to realize. And im hoping that theres Something Like this. To do it i dont know if im going for this work or whats going on with a part of your response to smoke if you. Want but. I think the key here for the Material Society is that it will always tell you that theres something missing you need Something Else theyre all contributing i dont think its all good you know youre conscious blame someone whos trying to sell you something so demand and supply you know were all sort of supporting each other and i have all gotten into this cycle that we are unable to find ourselves free from. You know what venue where oh i would say bended knee i was a 55 minutes. From start i think. Youre missing something and by samsara i mean. You think. Im sorry i need to go in there have a car about how. Hard this youre going to. Go you dont call it that think of all that. Being someone. Being capable by doing your identity. Theres this contentment youre always looking for or your old is looking what that struggle brings about so much insecurity and. One of the reasons why people acquire so much is because it feels like there are both neuro chemical and psychological feedback loops that causes you to continue doing it well beyond what you actually need. Its one thing when you go out and i can get a cup of coffee or warm coffee on a cold rainy day its completely another thing when you buy you know 75th pair of shoes he really really dont in any stretch of the imagination need those shoes but theyre still going to make you feel good. There is this drive to see the us sit up with the joneses. In our wealthy set on park avenue everybodys 16th Birthday Party last year everybody handed out i pods well this year were going to hand out i pads for this year were going to do this and so theres also this sort of ratchet effect. Theres nothing wrong with being a consumer i mean to stay alive we have to consume things. But then we were always around our self with stuff to the point where we become imprisoned in a gilded cage and. We became consume with consumption. Were going to keep buying stuff and told no one has a drop of petroleum has been burned so its very ominous i would argue. 70 sexism. Think is for gods influence upon industry makes lots of money with gender stereotypes. Of women and men to say that. So some business is now helping young conformity. Made in germany. 30 minutes on the. Door. What do they dream of at night. As cleaners they see the face of horror. Their job censoring for the social media industry. In the new era there are thousands of socalled content monitors day for day they screw up terrifying images from Online Platforms perfect job for starvation wage the strain is enormous. The cleaners or sworn to secrecy they are not allowed to talk about their work. And no one asks how they are doing. I think. I need to stop there something was up to. The cleaners social medias shadow industry starts junaid on g. W. 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