I'm not talking about regular people. I'm talking about the people in charge of huge decisions. The ones that would rather see the world burn than everyone live in harmony. The kind of person that decides to make 1% more profit even if it means billions of living beings suffer. If this revolution can be turned into a war zone you can be sure it will come to that, because that is the kind of mentality we are dealing with. Your idealism is commendable, but it just doesn't apply in certain situations.

I believe in synergy, that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Greed destroys synergy, and there is most definitely such a thing as greed resistance. The entire theme of decentralizing wealth is, by definition, greed resistant. We see a microscopic sliver of what could be with Steem's flagging mechanic, and I have to agree when you point out that there are decades to go.

In order for everyone to win, they have to lose. Even though they still win they'll view it as a loss, because that's how they are programmed to think. I'm not the one with a zero-sum game in mind.