Many things you have written about I agree on. Human nature is such that any system created, they will attempt to find, create, or manipulate that system to their advantage. Call it greed, ambition, or whatever other term you want, but it is their nature.
So perhaps the real question is if you want the easy solution, how do you make the majority stop thinking this way? I can only see education as perhaps a solution, but it's most general problem is that it takes time and therefore doesn't necessarily equate to "easy". Changing the human nature of greed is never easy.
Agreed. Especially when everything already went this way. It becomes even more difficult to educate people when they can make better profit another way.