I think we're just going to argue without reaching a mutual agreement because of our inherently opposite view of human nature. This is always an issue when discussing ideas which is encompassing and vague in scope. You have your valid points and if I came off as condescending, I apologize.

I think it is important to note the italics I used when writing the word "need." I wrote need in italics intentionally, so as to differentiate between necessity and luxury.

Anything we need is in nature. Anything that has to be put there is not something we need, or there would have been no one to put it there in the first place.

Anything you need is in nature. This is true. However, I'll pick foods for my concrete example. Foods are a by product of human effort. You need foods in this modern day but would you go out into a forest 100 miles away from your house to gather berries? Both necessity AND luxury today require effort which comes from someone somewhere. You cannot magically summon foods equally for everyone and all will be happy. Work needs to be done.

I'm confused. I said nothing about Communism, nor did I describe it, as far as I can see.

You did not mention Communism but the idea that everyone has every basic needs satisfied disregarding how much effort one contributes is essentially Communism.

I don't think we are inherently greedy. I believe that greed is born through the illusion of scarcity. If everyone knew there was enough to go around, I wouldn't be so sure that they'd still be greedy. Sounds like an interesting experiment.

Which is why I mentioned Communism because the idea has been and is still experimented. The end result is almost always the same. Given power, almost everyone will eventually become greedy. It is not the illusion of scarcity for the corrupted government officials. It is the unquenchable thirst for power and wealth that drives them. There are multiple cases where people who acknowledge material scarcity and are still willing to give them up, being homeless, beggar, poor. But it will always be the one with power who wants to stay in power to fuck shit up.

This is kinda why I wrote this. Are you saying that you just assume everyone who interacts with you on Steemit is just doing so for potential future monetary gain?

Almost everyone. Others are interacting with me because they see value in my post and want to exchange ideas, even conflicting ones.