Ok
Now i am not saying that crime is directly related to money, but can we not all agree that what may be deemed as criminal behavior is actually stemming from a sense of deprivation?
in the warrior cultures that Mr. Nice Guy listed such as the Yanomamo tribe, can we not say that their culture has embedded within it the idea that "your self-worth is attributed by whether you have a woman"?
My main point is that there are very real causes to why we commit criminal acts, and this sense of deprivation is found everywhere. We have confused self worth with material gains, or image and social status, and in a very real sense we are fighting for our survival, because we have mistaken these things and the identity that is born from them to be who we are.
My problem with money in today's world is that it is one of the main, if not the main 'lid' that is keeping us socially deprived while limiting any true evolution of self/whole to take place.
Yes money has helped us evolve economically and technologically, but i am discussing the reason behind these so called criminal acts of behavior that seem to keep our civilization as premature as it could be.
If i trace the inquiry of why are people not evolving on a whole level it makes very clear sense to me that money and the imaginary value we place on it is blanketing over society as whole. From the media controlled by the rich keeping us conditioned on a mass scale to worship image and status, to the politicians they buy who keep us struggling to provide the basic necessities for ourselves and our families.
The people 'at the top' so to speak, who have a shit load of money and are the ones controlling the media outlets n all that are also deprived, because the real deprivation is of oneself. No matter how much material gains they make, the emptiness will always creep back in and the money will never ever be sufficient enough. Society operates today from an extremely primitive perspective.
If i allow your assumed notion that my self worth is limited to how many women i can sex up then i have also begun to carry the burden of self-deprivation, and with it the lacking of self-expression.
Is this instinct to kill, rob, and deprive the next man something that is inherent in man? It could be.
Can Man actually go beyond these traits and evolve to co-exist maturely in this symbiotic movement we call life? Of course he can.
Well... what is the main obstacle/distraction laying in his path?
The obstacle is an idea, although it is better to say it is nothing but an assumption, and that idea currently consists of the value we negate from ourselves, currently kept as it is by the imaginary importance we have given money and the things that have come along with it.
So if you ask me, money is currently a key player in inhibiting Man's individual and social evolution into a more mature 'species', better integrated with the collective and the big picture. But dont let this last statement make you forget that i said the real cause is a belief of being deprived.