Not really. The notion that all human interaction is transactional and adversarial is relatively new, and the idea that this is actually good and should be enco

Not really. The notion that all human interaction is transactional and adversarial is relatively new, and the idea that this is actually good and should be encouraged is even newer. It only seems like an iron law of human nature because individualistic thinking is so prevalent in the West and especially the US and the UK, while models of human behavior that even remotely orient around collective goals, behavior, and action, are discouraged and often regarded as something like extremism. The hardness of the problem is borne of powerful actors making it such: there is nothing inherently difficult about it.