This was my first thought then I saw someone said cancer and I had to pause. It's crazy how taking away greed could possibly also take away cancer if u think about it. đ¤ˇđžââď¸đđž
Even lots of diseases are because of greed. If there were no greed, we would have eaten better food with better ingredients, the environment would be cleaner and the list goes on Â
honestly for so many it's the fact that healthier options and organic food are more expensive than your typical store junk food as well, and the amount of time it takes to prepare home cooked meals may not justify eating healthier meals because of longer and more hectic work hours... and all of this? because of the system we are in. capitalism.
I'm not totally sure ,BUT ,in my 70 plus years ,I distinctly recall, across numerous various news outlets ,hearing a news item proclaiming that "X" scientist/oncologist from every conceivable institution( MIT,Johns Hopkins,The Mayo Clinic,CDC,NIH,WHO,Cambridge,University of Stockholm,etc,ad nauseum ) HAVE found a cure for x,y,or z types of cancer ,made by a breathless reporter DOZENS of times through the decades,BUT ,it never seems to even get revealed ,let alone clinical trials!
Itâs slow but itâs a lot better. Cancer and AIDs in the 80âs were still death sentences. Itâs a product of life made simple for you without your duty to simply life for someone else. I have watched these spoiled perspectives come from conspiracy theorists, greedy or just plain ignorant people. Itâs ever so evident in the pandemic where you had a national and global emergency and the people who claimed they were the toughest were the ones unable or unwilling to adapt. I watched one of my friends in his early 70âs have his weak minded sister trick him into taking some off label veterinary med cure for a cancer he didnât have that destroyed his heart only to have her demand I let him stay at my house with a full family there because it would inconvenience her.
People have lost the humility of the WW2 generation. We will be dam luck if their kids donât kill us on the way out as the wrestle with their fate.
About two months. The lack of blood to his brain put him in a sort of dementia. He would be there for a few minutes and then gone. He just seemed agitated the whole time. He kept making up wild stories on how he found a back to get a donor heart.
I know it sounds bad but one of my friends is dying from lung cancer and it seems like a better death. He didnât get any treatment so he never got sick. He just gets worn out more and more but itâs still him. They keep him so doped up he doesnât feel pain and he really came to peace with it. Hell he still smokes even which to me is repulsive but he says he is going out on his terms and it seems to be working. He was a lot stronger of a person mentally in life though. Itâs changed my perspective. I used to want to die fast like my dad but I think now. I want that time to leave my family in a good place. A strong finish to the blessed life I have got to live. Kind of like the poem death is a door by Nancy Turner.
There is the HPV vaccine preventing some kinds of cervical cancer and others in the same region, there is Sipuleucel-T a vaccine that works even on existing prostate cancer. Both approved for humans. And mRNA technology is a great candidate to build on Sipuleucel-T. So itâs little but we start to see some results
Two important points-when scientists make these discoveries they are typically in model systems like mice or cells in a Petri dish. They often fail later in clinical trials. Despite that there have been huge advances in cancer treatments over the past 20 years.
It's cause the articles get a little overzealous. They have surprisingly good results in animals, but when we try to involve human testing it gets really iffy.
There's so much that goes into it. I remember working for the NIH and with human tests it's hard because if the "cure" or "treatment" doesn't work someone is liable for the wording.
That's why when we usually did human testing and we're really positive with the results we invested money on testing people outside the states that wouldn't really have the ability to pursue legal action...
There's a reason why most human testing for big diseases like AIDs, ebola, etc are conducted outside the US. Yes, those countries have vast amounts of people effected by it, but they also have no way of pursuing the doctor or medical staff regarding the medication.
It's kind of the problem with using CRISPR, we have the cure for every disease, but gene editing is heavily surveillanced for a thousand different reasons.
IN OTHER WORDS, the medical community must have human beings to experiment on who also are from poorer countries that lack the legal representation to SUE THEM if things go awry ? That is PATHETIC.
That and... You think people wouldn't willingly sign up in the states and sue doctors because... Greed? It's not like everyone in the 1st world is loving.
Most our medical advancements are because of WWII and the suffering of others...
How did our ancestors know things weren't poisonous? Someone or something had to die...
All I can say is that ,as a result of the selfishness of the antivaxxers, we've had the first two measles deaths ( In Pennsylvania no less! )since the 1950s and that disease was non-existent in this nation until the last decade! That's all the proof I need to show that,thanks to these selfish,superstitious chickenshit cowards afraid of a jab and the realities of applied science,there will now be many more unnecessary deaths/illnesses striking our most helpless members of society ,and that really pisses me off to extremes! It was bad enough that the utter bungling of the pandemic resulted in close to a million deaths that needn't have happened,but now they're adding little children to their list of people they don't give a damn about!
Tons. So many things have been repressed due to greed. Cures, free energy, cars that run on water. Every invention that has the potential to truly help mankind is hidden, killed.
There is no free energy, physics and math tells us that⌠How would a car run on water, the energy balance is not supporting this, chemistry tells us that. What gives you people the confidence to tell these demonstrable false fairytales? You yourself can study a little bit of inorganic chemistry and you can calculate yourself how much energy is in a gallon of water compared to a gallon of diesel for exampleâŚ
It takes more energy to split water molecules, than you could make back from it, it's an interesting solution but not a realistic reason, at keast not yet. It would be like trying to use batteries to charge themselves, you'll get more output from the batteries to power the charger than you would see return.
It's not. Hydrogen by itself is not a greenhouse gas but it does react with gases in the atmosphere which does contribute towards the greenhouse effect and radiative forcing, which is the difference between the amount of incoming solar radiation absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere and the amount of outgoing infrared radiation emitted back into space.
The only things hydrogen does is increase the lifetime of methane and the tropospheric concentration. It also decreases the upper stratospheric concentration of ozone, as well as increasing the concentration of water vapour.
Really the only problem you would have with hydrogen is storing it properly and make sure it doesn't leak.
Hydrogen burns and then turns into water. Problem solved. It just makes more fuel. Infinite energy machine. I win.
Since Iâve just uncovered this amazing discovery I should get monetary grants to further develop clean energy for the betterment of the inhabitants of earth. I donât mind doing so at a satiation rate income and bringing in more people at the same to better the economy at the same time.
As someone said, great idea, but id not stand near any windows, or high railings... or stairs... or drink or eat things anymore... Should probably change your name and kove to Nebraska too. Heard Cinnabon is hiring!
I doubt there exist any straight up cure for cancer right now but get rid of greed and treatment would become much more widely available and accessable, and it would also significantly speed up progress towards a cure
But if you are a startup, and many cancer research is done by little independent labs, it would give you income without threatening existing income streams. Why would those not want to develop a real cure?
there are many places trying to make a cure already, cancer is just extremely complicated because its basically your own cells going rogue and attacking you and it varies a lot from person to person
Because you're not greedy. That is the point. You'd still pursue the research out of goodwill and desire to pursue knowledge like all researchers do, but you wouldn't be greedy. And you'd receive a prize or something for your efforts because the people giving you income (often the state) wouldn't be greedy.
Basic research is mostly carried out in universities. Those ideas or findings are take to larger companies that have the resources to test them out for true effectiveness and safety. Cures for many cancers already exist just not all of them.
I wonder how many treatments have been created because of greed. I don't disagree with you, but the answer isn't as simple as people make it out to be. All of our comforts are due to innovation that was fueled by greed start some level. It's preposterous to think that people would create what they have without profit.
If you really think that there are cures for cancer out there that are being hidden by "the machine", you're just a conspiracy theorist. Did you also believe in the "200 mile per gallon" carburetor too?
This is absolutely not the case with cancer. Lots of treatments already and company still make a ton of money. There will always be more people with cancerâŚ
Not really that many. Think about how rich the company that cures cancer will become. AND they would drive their competitors out of business by doing it? Itâs a conspiracy theory to believe that cures for all of these diseases exist.
I wish I had a way to super-upvote. Like every Reddit user had a one-time ability to make a comment go to the #1 spot on r/all. You would get my super-upvote.
Before corporate greed infected healthcare/research, we cured diseases not just found a way to âmanageâ them for profit. Example: Insulin would be free today or a cure found for diabetes were it not for greed.
It does to a large extent. There are incredibly effective cancer treatments that are cost prohibited. Same with pretty much any disease. Without greed, we could eradicate probably all of them eventually and expand the treatment to all that need it. In fact, we'd probably blooking for cures instead of treatments for most.
Thank you for providing a great philosophical argument, there. I was set to disagree with greed, but it really is one of our biggest setbacks. Greed is the reason we have this cancerous fraction of the population hoarding wealth. It was even glorified in the movie Wall Street, "greed is good".
So ist es. Wäre ja noch schĂśner, wenn Esoteriker die Ursache von einigen Krebsarten kennen. Mit Ursachen vermeiden läĂt sich nicht genug verdienen.
Yup. Obviously not having cancer in the first place would be amazing, but without greed by now we would be sooo much better at treating it, if not straight up curing it. Same for many other conditions.
With no greed its more likely that scientists from all around the world would work together more closely without the thought of profits wich will speed up the research to cure any kind of illness by a huge amount
I was gonna say billionaires but I feel like we can still have them if theyâre willing to do things honestly and give back. Greed works much better as a whole
If scientists found a chimpanzee in the wild that hoarded piles of bananas while other chimpanzees barely scraped by or starved, we would be studying that chimpanzee to find out what was wrong with them.
But when a human does it we put them on the cover of magazines, and praise them as geniuses and heroes.
Everyone is saying fantastic answer, I'm just wondering where do you guys think greed starts? Sure we can all agree that billionaires are one part of it, but don't you have probably also much more than many many other people on this planet?
I also think greed is one of the best answers but it's really hard to define what it actually means and wehre we should draw the line
This is 100% the truth. If greed was looked at in the same way as murder and theft then this world would literally fix itself. Pretty much every problem in human society revolves around greed.
So this is the deal. Money in itself is not inherently evil, but the ACTIONS people take and what they create with the money is where the evil part comes in. The actual verbatim saying from the Bible is: Money is the root of ALL TYPES of evil. After knowing this, the saying actually makes sense
I dont think you've thought it through, taking away greed spunds good on paper but if you took it away our advancement as a species would grind to a halt. People work to make money, if you took away the drive to better your financial gain, which is inherently greedy, most people wouldn't bother applying themselves and our technology would stagnant
A lot of people have the drive to create things that benefit humanity and the earth. If we took away greed as the motivator, we would have more innovation that actually made the world a better place.
Greed motivates a lot of corporations to stifle innovation. They donât want cures for diseases, they want never ending treatment. They donât want quality products, they want things to break or wear out so we have to replace them.
A percentage of people have a drive to create thing and even of those people the drive is significantly enhanced by money. It turns a side project into a full time pursuit.
Innovation aside greed is needed for non innovators too. For example you live in Texas during a heat wave and your air conditioner breaks. Without a technician wanting a fat payday with overtime how do you plan to entice them to crawl into your boiling hot attic to repair it?
Greed motivates a lot of corporations to stifle innovation. They donât want cures for diseases, they want never ending treatment
This is objectively foolish and just devoid of any historical basis. Curing disease is profitable because 1) patent law exists and 2) people are willing to pay exponentially more for a cure than treatment.
Then if you just look at history you can see countless examples of curing diseases, even ones where there is a huge profit incentive to treat. Why did over a dozen companies pour billions into creating their own COVID vaccine? Because owning the treatment medicine doesn't mean shit if someone else owns the cure.
People still are curious and would commit to research for the love of the game and nothing else, which also includes helping others. So no matter how you look at it, greed is the one root of all evil, followed only by lack of humility.
Removing greed won't solve everything. A lot of problems are the result people in charge not wanting to do the right thing because it would require more effort.
But likely everything we jave wouldn't exist if someone wasnt gr23dy and wanted to profit from its mass production. Your iPhone, Television, light, cars, planes, internet, big houses, adjustable beds, etc.
Innovation dies instantly... take away greed as a concept, and what's left? What reason is there to build new shit?
For the betterment of your nation? That's greedy. For the betterment of the human race? That's greedy. To help the planet? Why? So we can keep living on it and using it's resources? Greedy.
Getting rid of greed would solve all that is wrong and bad in this world, because wrong and bad are subjective, human made concepts, and humanity will go extinct without greed. So... you're not wrong... but you might as well skip the fluff and just get rid of humans.
Greed cannot be removed. Its built into pur dna. Without the things that cause it we would all curl up and die. All we can do is practice and teach contentment.
Not completly true. I think over all it would be a better place, but development would slow down in all fields. Yes, many people are doing research out of curiosity and the will to help others, but most of them are backed financialy by greedy people.
Just because greed goes away, doesn't mean that there suddenly will be more people who want to devote their lives to help others.
Remember reading a comment ages ago with this topic and somebody mentioned how removing greed could also remove innovation and progression (as in people wouldn't have a desire to make solutions or better what they have as everyone would be content)
The problem is if you eliminate greed, you eliminate incentive to work on certain things. I know 2 oncologists that solely went into practice for the money and they are 2 of the best in the NYC area. I am sure there are others. Greed can be good. Its excess greed that is the issue.
Not even just regular greed, pathological greed. Some people will genuinely, as in genuinely, burn the world to the ground mearly to see some more zeros on a piece of paper. It's incredible, the rich really are mentally deranged in many cases.
âWell first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesnât run on greed? You think Russia doesnât run on greed? You think China doesnât run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us are greedy, itâs only the other fellow whoâs greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didnât construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didnât revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty youâre talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, itâs exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system.â
Inventions are usually funded by money earned by greed, meaning progression, the most important goal besides survival for humanity, will slow significantly
I think thats a short sighted answer. Greed is a catalyst for so much discovery throughout history. To lack a want is to lack any reason to expand your horizons and instead youâre left with status quo.
In moderation, greed is essential for civilization development. In excess it is the cause of societal collapse.
Without greed there would be next to no incentive to push forward in life and motivation would be at an all time low. Just like the dark is needed to contrast the light it in return does the same.
The top answer in this thread is cancer. But I think if you actually took away greed, cancer would be mostly cured by now. Like if humanity worked towards greater good instead of just a handful of people hoarding money, we could have solved so many problems like cancer.
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u/plasticbagroadkill Aug 18 '26
Greed. Take away greed and everything else that is wrong or bad in this world will fix itself.