Homo sapiens programmed by selfish genes had lived in the African savanna in small family groups (in broader tribes) and tried to gain scarce resources while absolutely careless if another clan (or not to mention a foreign clan) member dies. Careless about the well-being of other people, the animalistic morality we live by these days comprises territoriality, selfishness, aggressiveness, revenge, and defending yet gained scarce resources.
One could have barely imagined this could have led to the building of skyscrapers, science, automobiles, and the modern economy.
Don’t get it twisted. People are still careless, they don’t care if someone else dies when it could be prevented, are eating out while other people are malnourished. And it is happening all the time.
People make hierarchical (something we inherited from simians) institutions that can alter the way we live. People made hierarchical relationships in the African savanna, but nowadays institutions are built not just because of power grab but also of morality (which may be enforced by redistribute attitude, power-brokering, or – to your wonder – common good because to lure to your “moral values” or ideology in the African savanna, you needed to pretend you do things to the common good).
Being able to operate in submissive-dominant relationships, the monkeys have transformed themselves from African savannas to private companies and public offices. Driven by greed they learned how to gain surplus value (and sitting on money), making capitalism and formal education system with scientific revolution exist (the best universities were never in socialism).
And since I cannot stop mentioning how selfish and greedy people are, then what about the welfare system? Yes, it is partly because of “all-good morality” which can be selfless, but the money that the government redistributes must be forcibly collected and then forcibly put into the places it belongs to otherwise it gets stolen on the way. And it is people that made government (or subjects with surplus value) give away to common people, a novelty that didn’t exist in the vast majority of mankind’s history (one may object that even some hunter-gathering groups were somehow socialist, but this kind of redistribution with such well-being is really something new).
Now imagine the head of the all structures would be a Nazi. So it would spiral down the structures.
So we have a modern society where nobody cares whether someone is alive or not, how content is he or she (not to mention perfect morality – creating an infinite number of individuals with infinite happiness), lust for money, but he is sitting on a chair in a skyscraper and he is forcibly distributing money as he was made by pressure by people that wanted to redistribute the surplus value.
If the structures were to be dissolved, modern science-based economy and order would cease to exist. People would go back to their families, gaining resources and fighting for survival (just like in the African savanna).
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