System based on money and deprivation as motivation

 Humans can be motivated by more than just starvation, deprivation and riches. You can develop a culture that functions highly outside this paradigm.

Currently civilization runs off the motivation to not starve, be homeless or other deprivations and gives privileges through riches. I don't think that these are even the best motivating agents for human beings. To some extent the reason our system doesn't crumble now is because people actually individually are motivated by more and provide cultural value to our species because of other motivations.

I came across this thought today because I saw a lady chastise people who are socialists and she cited a professor who failed his class after they gave the average grade for all grades on tests. The lady used this example of how people stopped being motivated to learn was a reflection on the feasibility of socialism.