[jdbernard]

I acknowledge that this is an emotional response and emotions tend to be blunt instruments that don't really come with detailed reasons.

> how can one, even in theory, make more and more money every year and remain positive for society?

Why is making "more and more money every year" the assumed goal and "remain[ing] positive for society" the thing we have to barter over? Why do we accept, as a culture, the idea of profit is more important that people? That's sad to me.

> Is everyone just doing something "wrong" here?

Maybe? Maybe we've created a culture that is fundamentally opposed to our overall well being? I think we have, at least in some respects.

To use your analogy, it's not so much that I am sad it rains sometimes. I'm sad that, knowing it rains, we are happy with companies that sell unsuspecting people homes in floodplains knowing there is a real chance that the inhabitants die in floods. Then when it happens the response is just, "well, that's just how it is, it rains sometimes."