[Samildanach]

I was musing today about morality and its relationship to wealth and comfort.
It seems to me that societies which are for a better word poorer or maybe less developed but NOT destitute (ie where everyone has a basic level of living) seem to be relatively highly moral societies. Everyone needs to come together and pool resources if they want to accomplish any larger projects and because of this 'forced cooperation' a more moral societal structure develops.

However if you look at the other two extremes

1. A destitute society, people are so desperate for resources that they often ignore morality altogether (not necessarily out of choice) because necessity demands it ie people who rob and kill for resources.

and

2. A highly wealthy society where traditional morality begins to fail because people have so much their minds turn towards doing exactly what THEY want and f!"k anybody else, it leads away from societal cohesion as well which leads to moral fragmentation.

So what happens when EVERYONE has so much wealth (as standards of wealth are increasing across the world) that collective morality is abandoned altogether?