In the real world, everyone can do everything, right? The discourse that is heard from parents and grandparents, currently from life experiences in the media, normally, is that everyone will rise in life and raise families with the sweat of their brows and the work of their hands, day after day, sometimes bringing, the minimum for the family to survive.
When you use the word "speech" these days, it seems unworthy! It is not! These people testify to the obvious: no work, no earnings! It's an evolutionary aspect.
The human being is adapted, evolutionarily, not to die. Of all the creatures on the planet, of all the survival strategies, the human being is the most interesting: while all other creatures have evolutionary strategies based on Darwinian adaptation only, the human being, who is born devoid of many adaptations that would protect him, it creates, throughout its life, the necessary adaptations to survive. More than that, it teaches the next generations to adapt more quickly. The name said is technological advancement.
Despite the environmental impacts, ethical issues and other considerations that must be made, a sword, the tip of a bayonet, for example, is the technological adaptation of a stick from the time of the caves.
In the same way, a rifle, a pistol, is nothing more than a technological dapatation of throwing stones and, a little later, archery.
Technological advances are always aimed at efficiency and innovation and, in the case of weapons, at the degree of damage they cause in a conflict. In this case, civil losses may or may not be considered acceptable collateral damage.
The same advance - perhaps with less lethality - has taken place in all aspects of life: food, clothing, housing, education and communications.
It would be no different with commercial and financial relationships.
But, like everything human beings do, there is a not-so-good side: greed. Yes, some innovations didn't happen out of high feelings of honor or humanity, they happened for the simple matter of calculating gain.
There is a fine difference between ambition and greed. Ambition is the legitimate aspiration of wanting to grow in one or more aspects of life. In fact, it is the inner spring of every human being, what makes him go to one or another destination. Not necessarily material, an artist has the ambition to see his works, the financial return may or may not happen. Picasso died poor, as did most artists!
The word ambition has been used negatively in recent times as a counterpoint to selflessness and supposedly higher values. If you take the history of Christianity itself, as a whole, the ultimate ambition of this spiritual strand of humanity is the coming of Jesus, through making known the name of the Lord to all who exist in the world. It's an ambition! You can call it what you want and, above all, you can disagree, but it is the very definition of ambition.
The choice of Christianity as an example has a function: greed, taxed by Christianity itself, is the downside of ambition and is linked to more material values as a means of obtaining advantages of intangible power. The definition of Western good and evil is closely related to the 3 Abrahamic religions, so this thought permeated both the notion of ambition and the notion of greed and, lately, even the notion of abnegation - on account of the deceivers - has also suffered setbacks and mistrust around the world.
The issue, specifically in the financial market, is that ambition and greed go hand in hand, because both deal with material values.
The urge to want to grow, to earn more than the salary at the end of the month, to obtain more goods, or even to obtain pleasures - such as a trip, for example - are legitimate. Wanting comfort, security and status is normal and it goes back to what the ancients say: "we had a hard time but we raised our children with work and honestly!". Of course, we all have ambitions, aspirations and dreams, but we selflessly protect proli and survival in dream sacrifice.
This moral and ethical limit guarantees ambitious postures, but committed to not obtaining them in a way that exploits third parties.
Greed, on the other hand, has the same mechanism, but it is not concerned with trampling, trampling on others to gain an advantage for oneself. Self-centered view of the world.
As this fine line is often indistinguishable by normal or uninformed people, regulation usually prevails to protect people who only have ambition and punish people whose greed harms others and society.
What you see, in detriment of cryptocurrencies - unfortunately - are many opportunistic ponzi schema projects disguised as innovation and technology. In these cases, the regulation and the law itself must come hard to curb this.
As a matter of fact, it is historical misleading terms in the commercial-financial system since time is time.
This adds nothing to the reputation of serious cryptocurrencies, nor the well-planned and well-intentioned token and DefI projects.
On the other hand, over-regulation inhibits good innovations from taking place.
The break-even point would be the reduction of speculative capital, as in the traditional financial market regulation, on cryptocurrencies, in addition to warning people that they will not get rich overnight.
This greed-reward machine is what makes speculators and the corrupt and corrupters flourish.
Alas, regulation, as it cannot make an exception, is violent to everyone.
In time: don't be afraid of the regulations! Fear the tax, which are different media and government departments! Furthermore, Smith's principle: "Free market regulation" provides for legal regulations, but does not advocate state interference in the financial market.
Like everything in economics: where there is demand, there is supply. Where there is greed, there is deception. Today's paradise for speculators is the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Despite the protective aura, even nations come to speculate here, since, without a trace, the governments themselves earn foreign exchange. It's funny because it's these same nations that, on one foot threaten to hit with regulation and on the other foot do nothing for unbeautiful processes: state speculation and the production of their own cryptocurrency.
Moving towards transnational conflicts, I believe, digital financial. The problem is that whenever something starts on the internet, in recent decades, it directly impacts people, their homes and their income.
The sweat on your face and manual work have not changed: those who work seriously in this waiting, in this digital world, have to keep using their hands, often spend nights working awake, to support families. Honestly and incessantly, for the offspring is the trigger that passes the DNA forward. In other words, keeping the family is the way to guarantee its heredity for posterity!
That's why you fight every day to protect what you have, or what you want to conquer to offer this security!
This is ambition, this is adaptation, this is evolution. It's still a strategy to be self-centered, greedy and not caring about other people's lives, no. Goodness or badness depends a lot on the environmental assessment of the situation and how things are done!
However, for the purpose of humanity, it has only grown when it worked in a group, that is, empathy and respect for others is what made humanity reach where it has arrived. Therefore, the egocentric mode should be discarded for the greater evolutionary good.
Regulation is the way, for everything in society, to discriminate these differences and how far one can go without harming the collective good.
But beyond that, the lightness of conscience of each one is what makes you sleep well at night, what makes you look back and say what the ancients are proud to say.
How do you sleep at night?