1. Work only for wealth accumulation
Perhaps incorporation rules would require that each employee of a company be treated as "shares" in some fashion that gives individual employees more power to influence business decisions. Maybe something like, if a million shares in a company are created then that number is divided by the number of employees, making each employee worth that many shares. Yeah, I know, lots of problems with that, but at least big shareholders would have to take employees into consideration, and having fewer employees would then become a disincentive, as each would have proportionately more power.
2. Pleasuring yourself more than others
I think our collective denial and sex-negativity, especially toward the desires of women, are especially corrosive. We made "pleasure" a "dirty word" by design. It's only allowed to be indulged in by the very rich. Why? because the great masses of the unwashed have been needed to keep the mills going. If we all had to time for leisure, pleasure and self-indulgence, why who'd keep the lights on? All of it is a remnant of the "work is good" ethos of a bygone era. Those who see pleasure as an evil are probably not getting much of it, and that is really just sad. When one fully experiences pleasure one tends to want to share such pleasure with others. But of course, we have centuries of people exploiting that impulse for their own personal gain.
3. Knowledge kept secret used only for self-advantage
This mostly has to do with patent laws, which just put the breaks on innovation, and lately have become a card game between big businesses. If we were all shareholders in a collective prosperity, then the need for patents becomes absurd. In a patent-free world, where everyone benefits, we'd want technological innovation to accelerate, as that would mean more shared ease, comfort and general "wealth" for everyone. Patent law is just another vestige of hierarchy, where scarcity is exacerbated by excessive wealth concentration.
4. Business that does not acknowledge everyone as a shareholder
I think I kind of explained this. An "everyone is a shareholder" global corporation (heh heh, let's call it the Umbrella Corp.) is a necessary corollary of a Global Direct Democracy.
5. Science that destroys more than it sustains
Scientists are starting to understand this, and are starting to address the hidden costs of industries that "privatize wealth and socialize waste". Sustainability models for business enterprises are starting to include environmental costs more and more, despite the best efforts of the fossil fuels industry. Even their scientists are starting to acknowledge their industry's limits (while we stay on this planet anyway).
6. Religions that preach nothing but sacrifice
Most religions, unfortunately, serve to maintain hierarchy. Non-hierarchical religions are starting to emerge, despite being dismissed as "new age pablum", or even decried as "satanic". The number of humans now stating that they "have their own ideas" about spirituality are growing. The Slave/Death cults of the Old World are in their final stages. Their power to sway people would lesson much more quickly if everyone became a global citizen.
7. Politics that does not address properly items 1 through 6
I guess the whole point is to figure out a political system that is more self-correcting than the current hodge-podge of political systems competing for global resources. Some form of democratic process seems better than the alternatives. In order to let cooler heads prevail, we all need a stake in everything that happens everywhere. Otherwise, we're only as good as the last ruling cabal that gained temporary control of most of the stuff most of the time.
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