Capitalism and disparity

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJan 19, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“Does capitalism require a level of disparity in order for others to maintain the level of prosperity?”

We have to put the cause and effect chain in the right order. Capitalism does not require disparity, disparity is the result of capitalism.

Capitalism — as an economic or social system — is the truest expression of our inherently selfish, egocentric, exploitative, and individualistic nature, where we constantly thrive for excessive consumption, infinite profit and we actively enjoy succeeding at the expense of others through ruthless, exclusive competition.

And since we are very different in our “hunger” and willingness to sacrifice ourselves and others o get what we want, the most selfish and egotistic in society end up at the peak of the pyramid structure according to our individual qualities, the small minority exploiting ruling over the majority.

The solution for the disparity of capitalism is not communism or socialism as we have tried so far. Those systems are against our inherent nature and sooner or later require oppression, terror to sustain while even that does not stop the same pyramid structure to emerge with the most selfish and egoistic people on top.

Moreover, we also know from history that we cannot suppress or erase our selfish egoistic nature, as we can’t suppress our competitive urges either without suffocating natural growth and development.

This we need a completely new economic, social system based on Nature’s integral template, where we have to learn how to channel, harness the awesome driving power of the insatiable ego towards positive, constructive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing goals, and purpose, while also staying within the crucially important, optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.