These three motives influence human beings not only at a national or tribal level, but at the inter-personal level of everyday life. Here, it is really global and, as it is here that the problem starts. It is here that the whole story should be understood and solution sought.
Under current social, political and economic systems and conditions, people are lulled to believe that the goal of a job or profession is to get rich. Making money is overstressed to the disregard of making a living. Even making a living is a personal end of an occupation, whereas each occupation has also a social end, that is, to serve society or to benefit other people.
For example, making a living is the personal end of a medical doctor in doing his or her profession, but the medical profession also has the social end of curing people of disease or keeping them healthy. In reality, it is the social end that is the real result and true objective of the occupation. The personal end of earning a living is only a secondary result, a byproduct. Obviously, if members of a profession are true to the primary objective of their work, there will be a peaceful relationship between professional people and their clients. Society will benefit from this and peace will prevail.
In the opposite way, if professional people and jobholders, in disregard of the primary objective, make money to satisfy their personal ends, they will surely try to take advantage of their clients. They will not be true to their job or profession and will be insincere in their work. There will be problems in personal relationships and, in the long run, all of society suffers.
In the course of globalization, there have arisen a large number of multinational corporations. In international competition, most of them are seemingly compelled to be profit-oriented. To expand their trade or even to sustain market operations, many of these corporations tend to depend on the structure of international economy in which, through unequal exchange, developing countries are kept as sources of cheap raw materials and as markets for their expensive finished products. This process is, in turn, kept by indulging people of developing countries in consumerism and making them nonproductive recipients of assistance. Certainly, this is a kind of exploitation and taking advantage of the underprivileged, which is not conducive to world peace.
As all know well, wealth and power go together and are interdependent. It is easy to imagine how the amassing of wealth is intertwined with the pursuit of power. In the above-mentioned state of affairs, there is a fear of world domination rather than a hope for world unity. And in an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion, peace will naturally never prevail.
To bring peace, there must be right understanding and right intention in action at all levels. For example, everyone must realize the fact that the true primary objective of an occupation is to do something for the benefit of other people or to meet some social end. At least, personal gains and social ends must be in balance. Businesses should be more welfare-oriented.