Animalistic survival desires under conditions of engineered scarcity and reduced awareness. Compounded with powerful need for consistency - to keep everything

Animalistic survival desires under conditions of engineered scarcity and reduced awareness. Compounded with powerful need for consistency - to keep everything this way. Anyone with a decent amount of social power is aware and skilled at maintaining these conditions whether consciously or not. The praxes are non-trivial: awareness, bravery, flexibility, and seflessness. This could be summarized as "unhealthy competition."