Honesty and the care for truth has died in many heart and minds. Money drives behavior, often in support of what's wrong.

I had a biennial lifetime web host at $48.00 for two years. They updated their ToS and forced me to accept it before logging in, or else I couldn't log in. Then I log in and my lifetime service has gone from 48 to 120 per two years.

Mattress manufacturers can sell things as 100% latex yet only have a small % of latex actually in it.

There is so much dishonesty in this world because of people putting money as the #1 top priority. Anything is valid, lying, dishonesty, as long as it can pump more money towards you. Truth? Morality? How cares! And yet in this immense stupor of ignorance, people wonder why things are the way they are, unfair, unjust, etc. and how things don't change.

All of the "market" and trading is not producing anything. It's just money games. Imagine if everyone just did trading of various companies that actually do things. Nothing would get produced anymore. Using money to make more money is usury, not actually doing something really. Whether its interest or trading, you don't do anything but play money games.

because we CAN

Argh! Yeah lets do whatever just because we can! LOL. Right? Wrong? Bah! Those are childish notions!

"You can do anything you want as long as you get away with it."

And so, people try to do whatever they can to make money, cut corners, dump toxic waste, and other scammy thinking where the $ is put above concerns about doing the right thing. "Why use pay-to-play?" "Because I can get more rewards on my post." "What does it do to the image and long-term success of Steemit?" "I don't know... I get more rewards, wo0ot!" LOL.

I live with enough, I take a minimalist approach. "Poor" would be the social-economic bracket I belong to lol, but I don't need more. Car? So I am coerced to pay insurance, upkeep, having to move it around the street for no parking times, etc. What trouble, when I would hardly even use it. A house would be good, but I only need a shack to live in LOL if I had my own land. But I still wouldn't own my own land, as their is coercion to pay taxes on that. We can't really "own" the basic starting point for freedom from being extorted for money or more AIR: land.

We definitely have a scarcity mindset that makes us go for more. If the world was different, more abundant less survival-focus, then maybe the mindset would shift away from trying to get things to ensure we have enough fro that rainy day. Maybe we need the shit to hit the fan and get over that fear of the rainy day with all this falsity around us. Once it falls, we fall, and then we can rise properly. Governments and the market manipulators keep inflating bubbles of illusion and money games, and never let us fall down to reality for us to rebuild properly. We just keep launching into more fantasy after the previous round of fantasy blew up in our faces. lol.

If we use logic, the Earth is finite, not infinite, and so too are the resources, wild growth can't continue unfettered without limits. It's not sustainable to make an economic model that is expected to always climb. When the population reduces, and the economy shrinks, people will be in for a hard time, and maybe that will be the catalyst to pop the other bubbles and finally get us to rock bottom to restart properly -- or restart the same mistakes all over again...