The. All. All i had a strange dream. d i was walking through a golden. Beneath the dome of glass. And through chambers of splendor. Filled with so many objects that are you so desire. I saw miracles of human scale arterial. Floorless being seemingly. Predicted. They were searching for something. d such strange creatures. The world is in a big mess the more they get the more they want. President bush after 901 im certain are urging all americans to go shopping this but it would still make new money if the thing in me i grew up in the way that i would still make money even if i was never in a dozen. 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 shouldnt begin to. Mention this one and all humans are by nature an. Evolution as soon as it does as long as its mechanism doesnt become too dominant and he will miss the goals of the individual a perfectly as individual. Had 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 life. Mamie for just another ocean or a flash in the pan will be set in right next to the dinosaurs in the cartridge museum. I kept asking myself. Why are we like this. Caring and compassionate. But were also eco centric correctness. We give and we hoard. We create. And destroy. What is our problem. What drives us. I went in search of answers. I. Was 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 on 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 at risk. You know you might ask to talk about darwin if youre asked to talk about there are one it has to be about evolution evolution is an idea that darwin is trying to understand and whats his strikingly original proposal. Natural selection so. Humans 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 were acting nice we exist. And 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 bird if you know that youre here you know that someday like all living things 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 literally be paralyzed by abject terror. And what human beings did is to construct and maintain what the f. Are apologists today call culture and all cultures offer some recipe for immortality. Either literally through the heavens and after lives of reincarnations of all the worlds great religions or symbolically through the belief that some fasted show our identity will persist over time nevertheless. Thats why you want to have children thats why you want to build pyramids thats why we want to write great books and symphonies thats why we want to house of a lot of money. Human beings are motivated. We were proud of a lot of stuff because psychologically speaking it gives them. They may be able to live for ever. Desire greed and the struggle that brings about anger and aggression from the philosophical but this for us offical 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 impossible and. Secondly the fundamental principle of everything is said to be and to announce the but now what happens is we try to build something that makes us forget about us we try to make things. And that struggle creates. This 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 that struggle consistently builds up all these new horses and the prominent one of them becomes that many. Of those are very real physical phenomena and it doesnt matter how good your so bowls 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 it but you cant get rid of it. And then finally just really to make matters worse we also dont quite the idea of the work. From a starkly biological point of view were not all that much more significant or enduring them lima beans or armadillos. Animal takes on. The human and the. More than 7000000000 of us populate the planet. Designers designers of. The secret 6. Missing school meant we had no developed instruments to measure greed is a personality trait this fund also to elicit a state of greed in people mention in ireland. Its. Just a said ste along this is the balloon task we use it to measure our test subjects willingness to take risks of the subject how to try to keep inflating a balloon because a large of the balloons of the more its worth the effort. In each round the subjects play for real money every time they inflate the balloon that they are risking that it might 1st and then their money would be gone. Thats what i could list we have been able to demonstrate that people who tend to be greedy are more likely to take risks when performing this task so they inflate the balloon further the new normal test subjects for place before. They are off and we see that people who tend towards green i also demonstrate an altered brain response. In decent coffee say in this graphic and 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 other punishment signals are associations and to seek knowledge. About is the interest and thats what is interesting is that these people also tend to want to maintain that state of the classic experiments of olds and on their brains double meaning system its very interesting in this respect is the Community System even. If electrodes are implanted in exactly this region of irans brain. And the rush is then put into a situation where you can stimulate that dopamine system directly by pressing a lever. And the rats will continue pressing the lever until they died as it passed. And this is presumably one of the biological mechanisms that helps explain excessive greed. I dont run. There you go. You can have to ok. Were going to leave you r. D. Up to. The. 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 mating 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. 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 in their partner get something much better. Not. See this. That could be due to an equity. 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 it. From an evolutionary perspective the behavior that we consider green 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 is 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 yearn for recognition and self esteem. We collect relationships photos and likes s. U. V. S show records. We like narcissists. Addicted to our own ego. Being successful in business or not. And when you have it you can be about to take things to a level that people will be suppressed a month since the place this will probably the International Place little about all prices 700 square meters default blame 8 flows all played by one local press one doesnt want it above those that it will cause you just 5 wins its 1000000 got her to do those that will be with us exactly what is going to be. And. I would tell you my philosophy is a simple theres a thin lame separating a businessman and a criminal wife because anything i do someone is bound to said she did it. So all of us has business been throughout the world whether its bill gates or brunswick. But its because we think beyond other people think president mugabe is my brother for the european perspective out be a nephew from awful can be a brother. Who did not have the will of critics who once dead and by the. Brothers of the ugly critics more do us that way the World Economy will be nice to live. In. And i will come to my house i want to show you around as well as the chief means of it for for so many as. You know. It to school which is near my old offices they give me an i want for building a school block and then an organization help us help ourselves or not me for my work for you money tare and reasons so. They give me decide what with this i want from best on its main focus is to recognise those who have done a lot of work in human rights affirmative action and empowerment issues. Internationally thats me. In here is my main lounge. Where here. If you come in. Friends and family. We will do ministry and tours around you dont have conversations over its all its political economy and simon. The property has a hell of a bed on top so when its cold here we get to do pushed the hinges so it really has no heaters over here and this room is called him but the dining room beside the reception this house this is the only room i dont visit because it gives me that sentiment of relationship with the president and yeah. The man that money can buy. Unless is it. I know i come from i come 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 if me and one on top and that history is why i want to you know be able to show. I go to leave well not. Good. 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. Heroes and therefore become preoccupied with being the best at 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 man 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 on james or Warren Buffett or bill gates. But realistically for every millionaire theres got to be hundreds of thousands of people working part time at walmart without benefits. 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 stamp your breasts excluded of course 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 gotta get rid of all the oh i see and i say oh im so im talking about im this and i mean 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 imes 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 flag you see and those are the people who we would see as the future bureaucrats of the country. If you are driving into a poor neighborhood where you know people are starving to death and you driving down with your Mercedes Benz or your all surprised that the worst thing you could ever do. Driving with this eagle to say im better than you you know youll never be where i am those people are not just. Vanished 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 the other thing is that those can be material things but they can also be spiritual things for example ideas like im important for example or somebody due to money or fame or my title or Something Like that our entire modern world is based on its. For the image green destroys peoples lives 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 as im 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 a ruinous of those of a delta just. Things turn to memorial there have been stories of people who could never get enough. People learning the mind is. Diana says to grandma which meant everything he touched turned to go. But even his food and his drink turned to go and it seemed he might star for dr thirst. Golden regions have always been cast under the spell of on the moon and it was my turn to. Do what i ask myself loose money such a powerful allure. Help people overcome a else bank a read i chose banking as my career avenue for im a trained accountant and i worked with the air is bad we go. Fast in zurich and on the Cayman Islands which is a tax haven gallop i was promoted to Compliance Officer running i was the legal conscience of the company because these are all a name and. The a certain amount of greed is instilled into you that was true for me too and i have to imagine thank you start to think only in monitoring you know all cyclical dollar signs that have before your eyes and in your heart all day then they have that and that the only thing that matters feet over it i lot of profits and making sure you dont get cost the odds are way i operate how to cope. In my new phone to all else in my function as Compliance Officer i determined that we had a criminal mind also been let my names like in. Large in mexico it was a mexican drug songs it became clear to me that i was working for a criminal organization in the bank and it was a how to supplant in tax evasion and from Health Industry into you know talk i ended up feeling morally and united given the center of the matter up with management down management on click. On it or we were threatened in the entire family ended up leaving the Cayman Islands very suddenly. Its a bank theyve been swiss bankers in the Cayman Islands who have been killed. And to an extent my decision to leave the system was a moral issue but what was more important i think was that i realized the system had turned against me from the league in which they 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 that up to bonk the bank sending private detectives after us. Money so i was followed on my way to work the i had to change the route i took to work to change my workout missile john because signs of a blank car would upset me i was completely spun off from them and may even considered suicide to get out they wanted to drive me crazy wanting. To stop them all to ask how the state prosecutors had all the information but they did nothing with it but the same for the its a political problem it would make the criminal clients are uneasy as they felt they would realize theyre not often safe and protected either so with that in mind forages dont go out to the bank for me 1000 people call once again either the man who made the truth public or. Go through the plague. I spent 217 days in prison the 1st 30 days were in 2005 the rest in 2011. Times i was in solitary confinement spending 23 hours a day alone and myself 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 because coffee in switzerland is banking secrecy on the arts why no one ever investigate the unions bad bank even though the state prosecutors know that unity is bad it helped to see amigo as tax authorities it was so full of courage and for political reasons the state prosecutors really never investigated and if that makes going to. Be a valid question was how can we create test conditions that would approximate the behavior of a stockbroker for example are rules in these. Phones and theyre not makers and we use functional Magnetic Resonance imaging to investigate brain activity in our tests up there is. We can look deep into the brain of the organ including into the structures responsible for the reward response. For softness on our subjects play a stock trading game wouldnt even 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. Weve been able to determine that people who are especially green 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 mention this most im not intending. They want to nominate based on assumption that ordinary and average people would be risk averse its not going to make sense for the finance industry which is optimized for outcome to hire people who are more inclined toward risk you know ill buy it they achieve that with bonuses im going to talk about hiring practices and he came to us and i was why. Doesnt my believe its just a matter of time before the next finance crisis will hit. The only place you have been which is to look at what is what you get paid ok think of this bill. When i started hearing a bug what in buffett and bill gates will goes on about the 3040. 00 billions but not all of the vinta bill you you know in life if you have only a 1000000000. 00 you can be able to leave for 2 under its in 7 to 30 years. And eat well spend 10000. 00 at a. Nominal price before doing as it is obvious. So if youve got a 1000000000 that means you can even spend 30000 and because you know going to last that long but other people make much money. You know nobody can say i dont one more. People like me dont make money theres no taxes they never goes government function. So therefore people make money in their book things to happen. And the more 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 able to find ourselves happy. Many western europeans and americans they no longer really have a firm belief in god. But you have to believe in something. You know we have these beliefs us those reduce that anxiety but theres always going to be a rumble of panic the nature of the surface of consciousness were going to take this stuff thanks id and weve got to do something with it and one thing that we can do is buy a lot of. The. By the time you can talk you have already been pelted with commercial images like the nike shack and the golden arches we know them subliminally. Our children are growing up in a world that is radically different from the ones that you and i grew up and their brands have been modified according the way manufacturers of consumer goods they are spending literally billions of dollars to ensure that no child is left behind in the commercial rat race. Were basically in a sense no different than a mini us and we are attracted to anything that fosters life and pleasure and were repulsed and afraid of anything that threatens that state of affairs shoes shoes and shoes. Sometimes you dont want to let go of something you keep it for years and this will have never won it but i think its been sitting here for like. Still bring you. And this is something 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 the Something Like this. To do it. All up and get this worked out well for the purpose of the existence of so much because. I think the key issue for the Material Society is so that the oldest tell you that theres something missing you need Something Else theyre all contributing i dont think its on the you know your conscious blame someone who is 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 i would say. I were 55 minutes. From sunrise saying. Youre missing something and by some sorrow i mean. You think. Sometimes but i think i need to have a car about how. Did this new rock thing. But you dont call it that. Being someone. Being capable by doing your identity. And theres this contentment youre always the king for what youre always looking for that struggle brings about so much insecurity and. One of the reasons why people acquire so much is because it feels good 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 back and get a cup of coffee 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. Theres this drive to succeed in the u. S. It up with the genesis. In our wealthy set on park avenue everybody 16th Birthday Party last year everybody handed out i pods well this year were going to hand out i pads well 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 in a. Way but came consumed with consumption. Were going to keep buying stuff and told the white house drop of petroleum has been barred so its very ominous i would argue. Its selling sexism. Think is for grounds influence upon industry makes lots of money with gender stereotypes. When a man a say. Stix. Said some businesses are now looking. Conformity. Made in germany. 30 minutes on the double. Conflict zone in march Prime Minister open secured an open ended right to rule by decree in order he said to fight the coronavirus pandemic my guest this week from budapest is bosches vague hungary many people from the ruling see best party theres the government being honest about his motives or is this new law just the latest move to cement the oath oratory ruth complex. 90 minutes on d w. You. Know or what do they dream of at night duty. As cleaners they see the face of horror. Their job censoring for the social media industry. In manila there are thousands of socalled content monitors to take the script terrifying images from online platforms. Horrific job or starvation wage the strain is enormous. The cleaners social medias shadow industry starts junaid on g. W. This is d. W. News and these are our top stories like lone opon has sent to millions in india and bangladesh fleeing to safety the storm has already claimed several lives as it pushes inland and there are fears over crowding in emergency shelters it could speed up the spread of the coronavirus. Polls have closed and votes are being counted in the president ial election of the african nation of ferrante the vote could see the 1st democratic transfer of power in
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