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I don’t think evil is part of the human condition.
Humans have complex language, and are capable of learning, adjusting behaviour, and building culture over time.
Capitalism is a system that teaches and enforces greed and exploitation. It’s natural for endpoint is the destruction of our environment and the enslavement of humanity.
But if we lived under a different system that was not capitalism and instead fostered sustainable, egalitarianism, while also allowing us to cooperatively build technology to improve our lives, I believe this is something that we could build a culture around. It’s not that we’re pre-programmed a certain way and always destined to fall into the same trap…. Just when you create and enforce a system that expects infinite growth within a finite system, that forces people to compete over and hoard resources then of course you’re going to get greed, exploitation, and eventually collapse.
Another world and another way of being is possible if we build it over time.
Isn't it crazy that we learned the way to bypass nature's ambivalence and wildly exceeded its ability to control us through incredible feats of cooperation, yet we fall back into the same old atavistic selfishness and greed and laud it as "survival of the fittest"?
Dolphins and killer whales are capable of all the things you describe. So are all great apes. Chimpanzees are capable of genocide. It's not even human nature. It's just nature.
Are you familiar with Dunbar's number? The problem isn't how people organize, it's how many people organize. You get groups too big, the human empathy module short circuits and starts ignoring other humans as such...
You know what other animals can organize in large collaborative groups and not fight each other? Ants, bees and mole rats. Eusocial animals.
The problem with eusocial animals is they divide into genetically determined castes... So nature has shown us it's either small packs or become a drone for the hive, and the problem with small pack is that larger packs destroy them.