You are saying that applying good spiritual principles, those which benefit others and the world we share, to the choices we make in careers will lead to impoverishment? This is the stuff that makes a good, healthy society. What are you imagining, that thinking of your fellow human, supporting those with needs, doing good to those who you live with for the sake of an improved world, will impoverish society?
Well, you see, since nobody ever actually says what "spiritual" actually means, how was I supposed to know that it's all about what "benefits others." That's part of my philosophy, as a humanist, though I've never found that caring about others meant I needed to first believe in realms outside of me and those others.
So I care just as much about others as anybody else. I just don't seem to need to invoke some strange thing called (without ever being defined) "spirituality" to do so. And in fact, I have been witness to many, many examples of those who claim such "spirituality" have been very clear about their hatred for people who are not really quite like them.
What has made you such a cynic in life? And furthermore, what you say is irrational. Societies are built on mutual cooperation.
What is it that makes you think I'm a cynic? I'm a very caring humanist, and know -- possibly more than many of those here -- how cooperation is an essential part of human life. We are a social species, and all social species depend on mutual cooperation.
However, part of what we is also that we can also be selfish -- we can seek our own benefit over that of others, as some social species can't. Worker bees and soldier ants sacrifice themselves for the colony, pretty much involuntarily. We get to decide.
So we're complicated, conflicted.
The divine is that which is good. It doesn't need to look like a children's cartoon version of God. People need to grow up a little about that. Goodness is something real.
That is a nonsense statement. Good and bad are relative, and if some good happens to me (for example I inherit some money from a relative) does not make it divine, and if some bad happens to me (like getting hit by a car), likewise has nothing to do with lack of the divine.
Goodness is not "a thing." Goodness is what avails people, and for that reason it is 100% relative to that.