The world would be a better place if people were exposed to the full consequences of their actions on a daily basis. Diffusion of responsibility among market "actors," whose actions are by definition OK if someone will pay for it, is at the heart of many problems.
Moreover, the excusal of people from meeting their own physical needs or otherwise interacting with the tangible reality of the world has truly warped our sense of identity and our relationship to the earth. When people become "specialists" in just one segment of the economy, and trade their salary for the other segments, it distorts our sense of what things actually cost and of what material indulgences are physically permissible.
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