Most people in capitalist countries never leave the economic bracket they were born into. Capitalism is a primitive system of elites and peasants, filled with squalor and death.

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    Just false though.

    I disagree.

    If you want to say ‘humans in general’ create these systems, then why do you think that is anyway?

    Because lying and cheating increases one’s chances of survival. Hence humans lie, cheat and steal and the most “successful” people (read: richest and most powerful) are those who lie, cheat and steal the best.

    This is from contemporary philosopher Martin Butler, informed by Spinoza and Schopenhauer:

    https://martinbutler.eu/

    Hell is Other People

    Power Games

    Martin Butler - Corporeal Fantasy 115 (Business managers and intelligence)

    Martin Butler - Corporeal Fantasy 001 (Success)

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      But it doesn’t even to serve to increase the chance of survival past a point. It becomes redundant and if anything makes you a bigger target once you get so high. Eventually, it just becomes needless greed at the expense of others and requires a lack of morals and apathy to continue on. I think the real problem is that people don’t hold others accountable, and because narcissistic and psychopathic people tend to search for power, they are usually the ones ending up in the roles. The issue is that society doesn’t care that it is that way, and that people have used their influence to conditions others into thinking that the system they live in is OK and not completely unjust. So yes, when people are not held accountable, the worst people climb to the top the fastest. Yet, humans have also proven that they can overcome their own instincts and also through their own work managed to make it so that modern day survival is incredibly easily for almost everyone when they didn’t need to. Humans are not bound to act a certain way due to their genetics. It’s usually a reaction to the system they live in and what they are told that causes their behaviours, of course certain people will always end up a certain way, but that is very rare.

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        But it doesn’t even to serve to increase the chance of survival past a point.

        The driver is not just survival of the individual but survival of their genes. That is, procreation. And there’s no point in the acquisition of power at which more power stops being sexually attractive.