Transcripts For DW GREED 20240713

The. All. All i had a strange dream. d i was walking through im going to. Beneath the dome of glass. And through chambers of splendor. Filled with so many objects. I saw miracles of human scale artistry. Lornas beings seemingly. Going to be here they were all searching for something. d all. d such strange creatures. The world is in a big mess the more they get more they want. President bush after 9 or served our urge all americans to go sharpen this but it wants to make me money its the thing in me i grew up in the way that i would still make money even if i was never in the doesnt mean there is some money in the its nice to say. There arent enough people think they need thats what the Marketing Strategy is is that it always tells you shouldnt begin to. Mention this one and all humans are by nature an. Evolution as soon as times and as long as its mechanism doesnt become too dominant and he it will make as it sounds the goals of the individual a perfectly as individual. The shrewd avoid 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. May me for just a novel version or why action the plan will be set right next to the dinosaurs or the cartridge museum. I kept asking myself. Why are we like this. Caring and compassionate. But were also eco centric correctly. We hoard. We create. And destroy. What is our problem. What drives us. I went in search of answers. Was humanity set the crossroads i think a historical moment in the physical environment is undermined to the point where we need to attend to it war is something that we ought to think about why does that happen. People are pervasive way on happy on top of all of us and 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 us 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 active guys we exist. In 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 a hole 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. What human beings did is to construct and maintain what the after paul just 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 of 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 have a lot of money. Human beings are motivated. We were to have a lot of stuff because psychologically speaking of yourself. They may be able to work for over. Desire greed and the struggle that brings about anger and aggression from the philosophical but this was 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 important. Secondly the fundamental principle of everything is said to be and to that is. The but now what happens is we try to build something that makes us forget about we try to make things. And that struggle creates. This suffering. We begin to then hang onto i 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 though consistently have been so all these neurosis and the prominent one of them becomes the. Death is a very real physical phenomenon and it doesnt matter how good your so bills are your religion your politics your money theres still symbols and none of them will be sufficient to minimise the thanks i had to your rather to a woman you can reduce it 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 that much more significant or enduring than lima beans or armadillos. Animal take some. Of the human animal. More than 7000000000 of us populate the planet. Desires something desires. The secret of success. In this instrumental you know develop instruments to measure greed is a personality trait missed and also to elicit a state of greed in people mention in ireland. Sits. Thats 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 one of the out. Here 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 we have 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 for the ice before. They are off and we see that people who tend towards green also demonstrate an altered brain response. Induce a coffee say in this graphic we see how our brain responds to rewards and a punishment. So far weve been able to demonstrate that the more greedy the tests are correct so the weaker other punishment signals associations and acknowledge. The interest and thats what is interesting is that these people also tend to want to maintain that state the classic experiments of older 911 on the brain is doubling system its very interesting in this respect this i mean its a steam engine. If electrodes are implanted in exactly this region of irans brain that time. And the rush is then put into a situation where it can stimulate the dopamine system directly by pressing a lever i can and. That is 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 bring. I dont run. There you go. You go and you connect to ok but. Really though you are to have to. Do your. 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 you take 2 monkeys or 2 apes sit them 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. 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 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 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 Society so my perspective is that greed 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 records. We like narcissists. Addicted to our own ego. Being successful in business is a not. And when you have it you can. Take things to a level that people will be suppressed a month since the price this will probably the International Place this probably all ties a 700. 00 square metres before all blame aid flows played by a local press one doesnt want it above them to those that it will cause you just 5600000 but this is. A do those thatll be the thugs edwards is going to be its. One. I would tell you meant for most of his and simple theres a thin lame subediting a businessman and a criminal wife because anything i do somewhat is beyond a search of the. So all of us has business been throughout the world whether its bill gates or branson. Is a coup with us but its because we think beyond other people think president mugabe is my brother from 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 you are quick critics more do was sadly the World Economy would be nice to live. In. And i will come to my house i want to show you around as one is achieved means of it full force on many as. You know. It to school which is near my old offices they give me an award for building a school block and then an organization help us help ourselves on at me for my work for humanitarian reasons so. They give me this i walk with this i want from bafta its main focus is to recognize those who have done a lot of work in human rights affirmative action and empowerment issues. International aid thats me. In here is my main lounge. Where here. If you come in. Friends and family. We would do midnight and tours around you dont have Conversations Office all its political economy and some of. The property has a heavy bed on top so when its cold here we did we do pushed the heaters so it really has no heaters over here and this room is called them the dining room. Reception this house this is gone the room i dont reception just gives me that sentiment 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 common. 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 the says no different than dominance hierarchy and crime. We love girls 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 however. 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 Le Bron James or Warren Buffett or bill gates. Or realistic way for every millionaire theres got to be hundreds of fellows some people working part time a walmart without benefits. The same for women but they have a different cultural burden. We teach women in order to be beautiful you have to be ridiculously fem 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 gotta get rid of all the old 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 so all those imes its egos. Theres a lot of people into of the effie. Both black and white who carry the eagle badge on them and they carry a ta is a flake you see and those other 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 civilized that is the worst thing you could ever do. Driving with his ego to shape im better than you you know youll never be where i am those people are not just. Then if i have to leave i have to assert my ego the only way i can do that is through greedy oh im forced to constantly break something to myself that lends stability to my ego 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 is my title or Something Like that our entire modern world is based on. The image green destroys people lie 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 the size of me so its not what i actually possess that satisfies me its the constant striving for more of that religion has known for centuries and this drive lies within us humans but this drives us also our ruinous of those of up to his. Since time immemorial there have been stories of people who could never do enough. People like you might is. Dayana sister grandma which made everything he touched turned to go. Even his food and his drink turned to go. Missing he might starve or die of thirst. Golden images have always been cast under the spell of omnipotence. And it was my turn to. Do what i ask myself and use money such a powerful alone. People with scalia else bank of red i chose banking as my career avenue for im a trained accountant and i worked with the air is bad because og a bag 1st in zurich and on the Cayman Islands which is a tax haven yop i was promoted to Compliance Officer mining i was the legal conscience of the company thinking its these open amundsen. I make me sick e. O. P. Mean 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 may have before your eyes and in your heart all will say then that that and that the only thing that matters feet a 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 i also. Like in. Large in mexico it was a mexican drugs it became clear to me that i was working for a criminal organization and that the bank was a participant in tax evasion and fraud Health Industry into the open top i ended up feeling morally and united given a sense of the matter up with management down and actually on click. On it or we were threatened the entire family ended up leaving the Cayman Islands very suddenly. Writes a bank there when swiss bankers in the Cayman Islands who had been killed. In susu an extent my decision to leave the system was a moral issue but what was more important i think was that i realized all the system had turned against me from the clique 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 ground of the bank would destroy me if i tried to file charges against them and they go quick to go. On that up to the bank sent a 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 listen im going to go signs of a blank count would upset me i was completely spun off of them which might even considered suicide more to get out they wanted to drive me crazy wanting. To start a lot of the state prosecutors had all of the information but they did nothing with it but the stuff for the its a political problem why it would make a criminal clients are uneasy and they felt they would realize theyre not over safe and protected either so with that in mind the old fart is dont go out to the bank from without the phone call was again after the man who made the truth public falls to the bottom go through the. I spent 217 days in prison the 1st 30 days were in 2005 the rest in 2011. By those 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. Tried sort of switzerland to basically every country all day protects their golden cops because coffee in switzerland is banking secrecy beotch why no one ever investigated the unis bad bank so 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 political reasons the state prosecutors will never investigate about any of that makes going to. Be a follow up question was how could we create test conditions that would approximate the behavior of a stock broker for example articles in recent. Months and their mcnicholas and we use functional Magnetic Resonance imaging to investigate brain activity in our tests upwards. We can look deep into the brain of the organ including into the structures responsible for the reward response and your saw. For softness on our subjects play a stock trading game what missions 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 in the finest. 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 in this mechanism enables a kind of disinhibition i mentioned this most cannot in tamil. Mukesh. One of the one dynamic based on the 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. And they achieve that with bonuses im going to talk to the hiring practices and im just going to pass and i was fine. You know because its not believe its just a matter of time before the next finance crisis will hit. The 1st place you go with what youre looking at is what you get paid ok thank you for this book. When i started hearing a bug what in buffett and bill gates will it was on the board the 3040. 00 billions but not all of the vinta 1000000000 you know in life if you have only a 1000000000 dollars you can be able to leave for 207 to 30 years. And eat or spend 10000. 00 a day. Nominal funds do for do under the vs. If youve got a 1000000000 but music and even spend 30000 a day because no one to last that long but you other people make much more. You know nobody can say i dont one more. People like me dont make money theres no taxes they never posed government to function. So therefore people make money enable things to happen. And im one of those people. More growth more affluence more content. This is the promise of those who mean well with us. Were only too happy to believe that. We do our part. Only hoping to buy ourselves 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 reduce death anxiety but theres always going to be a rumble of panic a nice the surface of consciousness were going to take this that franks 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 the subform on already. 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 accordingly the manufacturers of consumer goods they are spending liberally billions of dollars to ensure that no child is left behind in the commercial rat race. Or basically in a sense im no different than im me we are attracted to anything that fosters life and pleasure and were repulsed on afraid of anything that threatens that state of affairs shoes shoes and shoes every wish. 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 what still bring you this one still going 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 this is something that people need to realize. And im hoping that theres Something Like this. To do it i dont want them to do this work over lets go with the part of the distances from the. Temple and. I think the key issue for the Material Society is that it will all this tell you that theres something missing you need Something Else were all contributing i dont think its all good you know youre 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 oh i would say 93 hours and 55 minutes. From sorry to say. Youre missing something and by some sort i mean. If you think. Sometimes but i think i need to have a car about how the apartment did this you really think. I would but you dont call it that think of. Someone. Being capable finding your identity. Theres this contentment youre always looking for or 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 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 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 the drive to succeed in the u. S. Up with the janitors. 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 signings. But then we were always around our self with stuff to the point where we become imprisoned in a gilded cage. We became consumed with consumption. We going to keep buying stuff and sold the white house drop of petroleum has been barred so its very ominous i would argue. Conflict so much promise the open secured and open ended right to rule by decree in order he said to fight the coronavirus pandemic my guest this week from budapest is voloshin dovekie hungary many people from the ruling free desktop. R. T. Is the government being honest about its motives or is this new law just the latest move to cement the oath or its a rule conflicts. In 30 minutes on t. W. Environmentally conscious living. With maximum comfort. Her nigeria from tanzania is helping make it possible he started with sustainable ideas in his own home. Kitchen how hes inspiring others to innovate and his inventions school eco africa. In 90 minutes on d w ringback. This is the w. 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