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Our systems reward that. Capitalism is about becoming the winner and taking more than everyone else, thats how companies grow - they kill weaker companies.
We have essentially created a system that works like the animal world, except animals also only kill what they need to survive, so we are worse.
All this intelligence and this is what we do with it. :)
I often think of what humanity could achieve if the old consciousness would disappear and we worked together to create a society of happiness rather than capitalism.
It would be a dream planet. We have everything we need to do that. Everything.
Except we don’t have this dog eat dog capitalism you’re talking about. We have communism for the rich because these big companies aren’t allowed to fail and are taking unlimited subsidies from us to destroy us. If they do start to fail the government gives them unlimited bail out money without any provisions against them giving the money to themselves . If by some freak chance a company does fail or fails because the shareholder class grifted all the wealth out of a company the CEO’s get huge handouts because the wealthy aren’t allowed to fail. Even failing is winning when everything is a grift paid for by the working people. The system you described is what workers have cut throat capitalism. If you lose you literally die.