Why we should not follow the Golden Rule
-Society is not organized in a way where everybody knows each other, and what works for everybody and what everybody likes. This system would fail even if every single person was a saint for that reason. Historical incidents such as Stalin's Holomodin and Mao's Great Leap Forward in Collectivist Societies prove this.
Irony: While our society values people who eat healthy and exercise for solely their own benefit, yet the firm who sells the jogging shoes or the health food to appeal to the interests of these people are considered "greedy and selfish."
Other irony: People consider LeBron James greedy, but not doctors and engineers who also make a lot of money. It's not greed that makes us want to do well, it's our love of family and our innate desire to succeed. This can be harnessed toward good and evil.
Reciprocal Altruism: Tony from New York needed a kidney and Tina from San Diego gave him one. Ten years later, Tina needed to pay for her house, and Tony gave the money not knowing that it was the person who gave him the kidney ten years ago. This is altruistic. If time and space were shrunk, for example, if the transaction happened at the same time and they were living in the same place, then this would be horrific because Tony would be giving Tina the money only because he needed a kindey for himself and vice versa.
In Conclusion we should follow the silver rule when interacting with complete strangers: Do not do to others what you would consider unfair or unjust if they did it to you. Case in point, the bus driver doesn't wait for Rizzo because he has to take the schedules of all the other people riding the bus plus all the people waiting at the next stop into account.
People seem to think that there's a big conflict between corporations trying to make profits and being charitable with their own money. However, that is not the case because there is no such thing as "enough profit" and running a good business requires soft values and rules.
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