do i really need this?

in the nineteeth century john stuart mill questioned the need for a continually expanding economy, remarking on an economy tied to need rather than speculation he observed..."I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition."...aside from the obvious issues that would arise among the terminally greedy, i am inclined to agree...strongly. it would require considerable education and enculturation of new norms...media reform and economic leveling would be high on the agenda. the question remains ...what would prompt the economic elite to co-operate? it wouldn't be voluntary...greed is exclusive of a vision of social responsibillity...possibly exclusive of acknowledging anything but its own existence...violence isn't really an option...it's not ethical and is pretty much the provence of greed itself ( how long could an economy based on the destructive utilization of resources last without the threat of violence to extract those resources from any reluctant group unfortunate enough to be sitting on something empire wants?) and i want to move past greed...freindly persuasion seems like a dead end too...it will take something on the order of a climatic catastrophy, and by then it may be too late...could it be that we're too greedy to see that we may be doomed as a species? too greedy to care? too greedy to stop and take a critical look at ourselves? could be...i'd like to think not...but i need to be shown. the problems are manifold and there is no shortage of obstructionists disguising themselves as reasonable mediators or the posessors of revealed truth ( for the record, i have way more questions than answers...to the extent that i will not really know what i am talking about at times...you can interpret this in any way that suits you, but any interpretation you choose to believe will not make the underlying, objective issues go away) there are so many people with the answer that i cannot possibly compete with them...and there may not be an answer, but i'm going exploring anyway. i refuse to give up hope.