Zoom out a bit and apply systems-level thinking. We all know that a small number of locally applied rules lead to complex emergent behavior. Millions of individ

Zoom out a bit and apply systems-level thinking. We all know that a small number of locally applied rules lead to complex emergent behavior. Millions of individual inheritance decisions have an impact. We can choose to believe that people, individually making self-interested decisions, aggregates into a net good, but I'm not exactly convinced based on whatever first principles are in play.