1) Ah… Hmm… I’m gonna go with worse. For the betterment of society, specialization is needed to efficiently complete a task, both for yourself and others, which allows those others to similarly complete different tasks. When a society has everything it needs to sustain itself, it can advance and expand into new territories (both physically and technologically).
If I had to gather food and maintain a shelter and you had to gather food and maintain a shelter and Hopscotch had to gather food and maintain a shelter; it just doesn’t allow much time for anything else but focusing on survival.
2) No. No I think we can do for less of that.
3) You keep using words that are vague and open to interpretation. Depending on where you go, Tumblr is obscure. Is this website a cult? Specific forums can be very hard to find in the vastness of the internet. Is a small group of ten or so folks brought together because of a common appreciation for a video game a cult?
4) No, sorry. Greed can be a decent fall-back. “I do bad because I want nice thing.“ That’s what Ursula did, anyway.
But no, what you’re describing is a tool. Somepony trying too hard to be edgy and cool, and will just wind up being used by somepony else with greater ambitions.