I have a working hypothesis that civilization increases the alleles in the human population that are factors in the development of sociopathy and psychopathy in individuals, and tribal societies attenuate such alleles.

If I'm right then it's the abandonment of tribalism that is at the root of our problems, the exact opposite of the assertion of the OP.

But interestingly, not pre-history (pre-civilization).

Should a young person whom is sick but able to do light work be on social welfare? While on social welfare, choose to stay at home as he is provided by social welfare

No rich man ever got to where they are by being ethical. Sure some inherit the money, but do they really count?

..proving my point.

One of the biggest problems in the world is the bias civilization dwellers have against "tribal instincts". Maybe if we followed our tribal instincts a little closer and created tightly knit small social structures we wouldn't have all the problems that we have, which in my mind are the results of the unnatural character of civilization. Our tribal instincts worked well to preserve us and our mental health for hundreds of thousands of years, but when they do not comport to the demands of civilization, it's our tribal instincts that are the root of our problem?

No, that's problem 2, problem 1 is 'Greed'.

I just call it for what it is, an addiction. One who's victims are in the hundreds of millions if not billions, and they are the number one enemy to the world.

Yeah it's weird isn't it.

I personally can't imagine caring about more money past a certain amount, but I think the process of becoming that wealthy weeds out people like us who don't want it enough.

Thus, the very richest are always, by a process of elimination, people for whom no amount is sufficient.

Or that's my theory anyway.

It invariably promotes short-term goals over long-term viability. Basically, "I got mine so who cares?"

It's so strange to me, even with a fraction of their wealth they would still be living in the same quality of luxury. The only reason they want wealth is for its own sake, or they want absolute power, both of which are fundamentally evil, shortsighted, and inevitably self-destructive.

These are addicts, except the damage they cause is global.

I remembered there was a case that a car company (chevron?) had a flawed car brand, the company decided not to recall as in their calculation, the total compensation for accidents would be cheaper than fixing all the cars.

So, yeah, some people do make such calculation. But the majority of the mass don't do that, the moral judgement of the mass are usually emotion-driven or event-driven or pattern-matching or just blindly following KOLs they like. The majority probably wouldn't do such calculation until they are in really hard position, and they would probably take decisions that favor their own interest in those situations.

Perhaps worth mentioning how US-centric this response is to a world issue.

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