Profit-Motivated Activity, Semantically Undefined
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Profit-motivated activity doesn't have a target feeling, it is technically 'undefined'. Behavior motivated by greed cannot reach a stable state because it is feeling-blind, it cannot fulfill itself. That is because greed doesn't serve a purpose – it has no target feeling, no semantic content, no 'direction'.
Notice that you can be greedy in infinite ways, greed doesn't give you a "what". But that's precisely the power of the profit-motive: It promotes divergent behavior, it motivates an exploration of the ways and means in which you may transact value... because to profit you need to transact value. That is why a liberal capitalism is so good at motivating economic activity/fueling innovation.
The downside? The profit-motive endows activity with a value-extractive character, a foul smell we have learned to identify and avoid in our personal relationships. Greed makes activity foul, it denatures interaction. Imagine we collectively remembered this... what do we do? How do you put Pandora back in the jar?
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