Greed and selfishness have their uses. The key is to have a strong, yet lean and efficient regulatory environment to keep them from being damaging to society.
The key is not regulation (at least not in this sense), but making it physically impossible to damage society to any great degree. You can't regulate human nature away.
Actually, no. I have a procedure that would gradually make this possible - and my personal estimate is that most of what I'm talking about would be possible in less than 50 years.
The core of the procedure is to create a separate world society exclusively made up of informed volunteers - and the number would initially be very small, I expect. So as to minimise the impact on the current world society - so that people in power who're swept up in their own indulgence wouldn't counteract everything. There would be mutually beneficial trade and interaction between the two societies.
The idea is that, eventually, the advantages of the new society would be so obscenely plain - that everyone would want to exist there. This last part, however, could take hundreds of years - though I honestly don't think so.
It's fine wanting to work within the society that exists today, except that it's rotten to the core with more misery and injustice than words can describe.
If you think you can "regulate" human behavior successfully without altering the core - then I'd love to hear how you would accomplish that.
I'm sure, but it wouldn't actually be a problem - because a necessary first step is to legalise the process of establishing a separate world society. As in, the current society would have to "greenlight" the new society - primarily based on mutual gain and feasible co-existence.
So people should just lay down and be subjugated to DArtagnan's will because "theoretically" its whats best for everyone? Are you even a real person?
Even so, I'm concerned more with the next 5 years than the next 50. While you are implementing your slow paced revolution, the world would be crumbling around your ears.
This sounds a lot like what all those hippies did in the 60's when they went off to start communes and 'change the world.' They didn't succeed.
The world is better now that it has been thousands of years. Perfect? Not even close, but that statement is way over dramatic.
We successfully regulated US markets for about 50 years for the most part. It wasn't until we started tearing down regulations enacted during the Great Depression that abuses became widespread and systematic.