Trial And Error:
I'm curious about people's opinions and experiences regarding how permissive modern western world is to egolessness.
By modern life I mean a life where the respect you get is not independent of how high you are in the ladder of material success, your accomplishments in material world, and how much social status and influence you have.
By egolessness I mean an attitude that values giving more than taking, sharing more than having, humbleness more than pride, helping more than competing, accepting more than fighting, having guards down rather than up etc...
If people have problems with the word egolessness and the way I defined it, what we call it is not that important. Question is applying the described attitude to modern life.
It seems possible to be egoless but take things, keep things, show pride, compete, fight, be guarded etc You would behave in that way for some other motivation than ego. For example you might take back human rights, show pride in being part of a minority, keep a passive income, take people/organizations to court, surprise those acting immorally etc.
It requires receiving if other people are to get the opportunity to give, consolidating wealth to allow for investment, being proud to motivate a group, competing to master some skills, fighting to protect the innocent, secrecy to defeat abuse.
I guess my point is that those behaviors become problematic when they are enacted in service of the ego. Someone who does not behave in those ways may still have a big ego and be morally corrupt as well.
For example not wanting to be judged as greedy leads some people to not accept help. That can be the ego playing a game of pretending to be "nice" or what some people confuse for "egoless"
I may be well off the mark here but I hope some of it can be of some use.