The Golden Rule Is Not Enough

More to discuss on this matter, so if you're interested in "fixing" the world, read on and check back later.

If the Golden Rule states (in Classical/Victorian English vernacular) : "Do unto others as you would have done to you," and if this rule is valued as gold, well, there are some questions that must be asked regarding why the rule hasn't provided salvation from fear, distrust, and harm.

People obviously will spend a lot of time, effort and money to acquire gold, and the USA's and global economic system depends on this value, so why isn't society system of moral and ethical treatment of each other able to hold the same standard?  The gold standard for economics essentially places relative value, prices, on EVERYTHING with respect to an exchange of it for gold.  A social standard for behavior and interaction should be based on everyone treating each other with equal dignity and respect, but we fail to do so and hence do not consider all human beings equal.

Where is the breakdown?  The Gold Rule must be reminded in every situation/interaction, and consequences for breaking the rule are shame and retaliation (by penalty or penal detention).  I seek to dig deeper into the psychology if it always comes down, ultimately, to a decision by a human being.

How do we treat ourselves, if this is the basis for treating others?  Apparently, not well.  Why don't we treat ourselves with utmost dignity and self-respect?  These questions must be understood and answered in order to solve issues big and small, because they are the same issues, that plague the world with fear, distrust, and harm to one another, and another.