What If We Treated Greed Like Depression? Rethinking Human Behavior, Ethics, and Healing

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Greed is usually treated as a moral failing — but what if it were approached like a mental health condition? In this episode, George Monty examines greed through the lens of psychology, ethics, and social systems.

From personal behavior to economic systems, this conversation explores whether reframing greed as a condition could open new pathways for personal growth, societal responsibility, and collective healing.

In this episode:

• Parallels between greed and depression as human conditions
• Psychological, social, and cultural factors influencing greed
• Rethinking ethics, accountability, and intervention
• How compassion and awareness could transform behavior
• Implications for economics, governance, and society

Transcript:
Speaker 0 (0s): You're talking to the Rolex, wearing a jet flying that have a gun, and I would have a hard time holding these alligators. Well, well, wow.

Speaker 1 (25s): Welcome back ladies and gentlemen,

Speaker 2 (29s): Thank you for taking a minute to come back and hang out. Spend some time with me. Hope your days go. Well, all of a sun is shining. I hope the birds are singing all. If you looked in the mirror and were like, man, I'm a good looking son, have a gun. You know what? We should talk about what I was thinking about. How about new drugs? Right? I remember that old song. I think we, as a society need new drugs,

Speaker 1 (1m 1s): Right? Like, let

Speaker 2 (1m 3s): Me, let me just run you through my thought process for a moment. I was thinking about the potential for the Corona virus. Let's just pretend because it's true that the virus was made in a lab and they've used this CRISPR technology to go in and cut sections of the ACTG that match up with the other ACTG cheese.

And they have engineered this virus to go and do things. They have created a spike protein, and they have created the RNA and chances are, it's probably a, it is probably bio warfare. Right? Okay. I know, I know everyone's sick and tired of talking about COVID me too, but it's imperative that I say that part.

Speaker 1 (2m 6s): If, if we

Speaker 2 (2m 8s): Can engineer a virus to kill people and spend trillions of dollars of our own money, right? Because that's where those viruses come from. We as the taxpayers give our tax money to the government who gives it to these black op projects and they make these killer viruses. If it's possible to make a virus that kills people, shouldn't it also be possible to make a virus that makes people more awesome.

Speaker 1 (2m 37s): You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (2m 38s): I got a written down some notes here. Like,

Speaker 3 (2m 42s): Let me tell you here. Let's see.

Speaker 2 (2m 46s): Let me just read you kind of what I, what I wrote down. And then you guys will understand where I'm coming from.

Speaker 1 (2m 52s): Reality unfolds

Speaker 2 (2m 53s): Like a protein. The atomic is the same as the cosmic. The COVID pandemic is emblematic where mankind is today. That which plagues us is made by man. If we can create a virus that could wipe out the planet or a virus that could decimate the world population, should it not also be possible to create a virus that would empower the population?

Think about that. I want to briefly go back to a first part of that paragraph that says the COVID pandemic is emblematic of where mankind is today. That which plagues us is made by man. Like we have created our own pandemic. We didn't need, we don't need help from nature.

Speaker 1 (3m 55s): Like we

Speaker 2 (3m 56s): Are our own problem in society. The COVID 19 pandemic is a great example of us getting in our own way. What the fuck are we doing? Am I the only one that thinks, oh, what the fuck are we doing that we were just producing to produce? It doesn't seem like we have any shared goals or sacrifice. Somebody gets up, goes to work to make a fucking money to buy shit we don't need. And what is the longterm fucking plan?

Are we becoming super humans? Are we going to merge with technology? And if that's the case, why does anybody fucking know about it? I think if we're going to move towards something, shouldn't everybody be on board. Shouldn't we all be like, okay, this sucks right now. But in 50 years, we're going to be these cyborgs. You guys with me. I'm like, what the fuck are we doing?

All right. You can get back. I got a bird walk in their for a minute. All right. What would such a virus look like? If we were going to make a virus that made the world better, what would that virus look like? You guys have any ideas. Does anybody have any ideas? If you have them share them in the comments, reach out to me. Let me know. Billions, if not, trillions of dollars goes in to the research and development in pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 1 (5m 36s): Okay? Billions,

Speaker 2 (5m 39s): If not, trillions of dollars goes into the research and development or pharmaceuticals to stop the suffering of mankind. It seems to me that the majority of these drugs have fallen victim to man's lack of imagination. You know, we have plenty of drugs that are aimed at stopping the symptoms. We have plenty of drugs that are aimed at alleviating the symptoms of suffering, depression, inflammation, stress, anxiety, restless leg syndrome,

Speaker 1 (6m 23s): Wakefulness, right? All

Speaker 2 (6m 26s): Of these, we have all these drugs that force you. We have all these drugs that allow you to mask the symptoms of despair, but not one. I haven't seen one commercial, one drug company that aims to fix the problem of greed. Not one.

Let me ask you this. If we treated greed like depression, well, the world a better, how many people in the world, a depressed, everybody knows somebody who is depressed and you and your life. I'm sure that at some point in time, you've been depressed. People that struggle with depression are usually ashamed that they are depressed.

Speaker 1 (7m 30s): Why it's a fucking hard, your life is hard. Of

Speaker 2 (7m 34s): Course, you're going to be depressed when you're a kid dies. When you get everything you've got and then you get shit on, it's depressing, but you still got to get up and try. Can't give up, get depressed and then get over it and get back to it. But what about greed? If we, as a society can say that people who are depressed need medical attention,

Speaker 1 (8m 6s): Then can't we as a society

Speaker 2 (8m 8s): Also say that people who are a greedy need medical attention,

Speaker 1 (8m 14s): If we could get

Speaker 2 (8m 18s): The idea into the medical journals or the DSM and have all the psychiatrists around the world would be like, greed is a mental disorder. It's a mental disorder. Try and try and picture how that world will look. Hey man. Do you guys hear about John? No. What happened? Oh man. He came down with a Silverstein Rothschild disease.

Speaker 1 (8m 40s): Ah, man. Damn. And is he okay?

Speaker 2 (8m 43s): No man. He's not going to be all right. They got 'em on a, they got him on like 500 milligrams of MDM a twice a day. So I mean, he feels good, but I guess once you co...