Values don't need to be wholesome to be communal.
Nor do they need to be conscious decisions.

In my opinion the values I listed play a role in our lack of progress as a society.

What we broadly classify as greed stems from vanity, self-obsession and the desire to be envied. Materialism and conspicuous consumption have become the modern-day balm for all sorts of spiritual and physical self-neglect.

But it never truly fixes the problem. Such a culture only produces intellectually stunted drones: insular, emotionally insecure people with little interest in morality and hence, no understanding of how to trust one another.