Let's say you are a cart pusher in a free market. After ten years of cart pushing, you land on a trading opportunity and capitalize on it. Then you hire more cart pushers.
Now you have a responsibility. Either keep the business going, or everyone loses their job.
Then others smell profit and eat up your market share. Now you have to stay afloat and the workers suffer.
As the emergent properties build up, we end up with a modern free market society with all the romanticized "class wars" worker abuse and peeing in a bottle drama all because the job market exists.
It is like an ouroboros ironically nibbling on its tail while winking.
No. Greed is inherent to humans. No social order can eliminate greed. They can, however, mitigate the harmful effects of greed on society.
In a democracy, elected leaders are not as empowered to satisfy their greed as monarchs are in monarchies. Socialism extends this logic to businesses: An elected business leader would not be able to satisfy their greed to the same extent that a capitalist business owner can.
You can get rid of money and have communism if you want and guarantee that all have what they need. But somewhere beyond need there is want, and the line is awfully fuzzy.
You can have a barter society if you want, where people trade pineapples for shoes, but you are always going to have people who want more shoes or more pineapples than what others have.
