Those societies might have been killed off by the greedy societies. If you take Milton Friedman's comments in your video about Russia and China, that seems like a possibility.

I'm not saying all greed is bad, but that greed can lead to bad things.

I want things, and that makes me greedy, but I'm not going to steal, cheat, kill, or do other bad things to satiate my greed - for some people, their greed is more powerful than their morality.

For many people though, their greed about wanting to look better in the eyes of others, or other egotistical things, often leads to strife. So that kind or level of greed is not good either.

Innovation can come from other places besides greed, and I am not arguing against the free market or capitalism where your reply with the video seems to maybe indicate that I am.

I love when people bring up this video as it gives me hope.

Hope because it is a dead end ideology and believing shows that evil peoples horizon doesn't reach that far and there is a wall they're unable to cross. In the end this will be their end too.

Yes sure, there is no society right now which is not based on greed (it is a very basic view but, let's work with it for the moment) however the reason we, as a humanity thrived and got so far is because it was more then greed. People got together beyond their families, later beyond their clans to grow bigger. Those who preferred greed did not succeed as a society.

Friedman lists Einstein. Einstein developed his special relativity in 1905 while employed at the Swiss Federal Patent Office in Bern. That was literally a government bureau. He studied at ETH Zurich, a federal, state-funded university. His work was built on works of others, published in publicly funded academic journals. Science IS shared work. And I mean...Einstein wrote on this topic: “Why Socialism?”.

The mass market for his cars depended on public road building. Federal Aid Road Act 1916 he became so successful because of those governmental bureaus and state and society as a whole.

My point is: just because we don't have a system working without greed, doesn't mean that it is some natural law of the universe. We can thrive to develop this society because there is progress in it for the whole of humanity.

While in selfishness, anti-social behaviour and greed, there is only doom and hate. As we see clearly these days.

PS: just to prevent a common derailment technique at this point: I DO NOT believe Socialism is a solution here. I grew up in a socialist state and I know that it is evil just like all other iterations of Socialism have been. It is just another version of greed where the greed doesn't go to greedy investors but to greedy party members.