> You don't deliver genuine progress by "fighting"-- it takes time and reflection and collaboration-- but our instinct amid scarcity is to fight each other and

> You don't deliver genuine progress by "fighting"-- it takes time and reflection and collaboration-- but our instinct amid scarcity is to fight each other and the behavior of competing-to-subordiante (as in a chieftain's harem, or in capital's harem, also known as the corporation) is quite old as well Exactly. People considers that the idea of natural selection and darwinism applies in society, it should not, because society is not a natural construct, it's an artificial construct, designed by humans, for human purposes, and those purposes are to escape our animal state, protect us from the elements, etc. Ultimately, people are deemed to fail if they can't see they life day to day, and understand the end of it other than through the lens of some "global systemic purpose". There seems to be no end to this painful work process people put themselves into, yet the majority of people are convinced they need to work.