We are born to exploit, manipulate each other
Question from the Internet:
“If a post-scarcity society were ever to exist, would those people who are motivated by greed lose their motivation because anything they wanted, they could have? Would people be less educated and less ambitious because there’d be no need to try?”
Nothing would change.
We mustn’t forget that Humans didn’t always have the abundance of goods, services as we have in our generation - at least for the majority of people.
For millennia most people lived in extreme scarcity.
And it didn’t stop a stronger minority to bully, oppress and exploit the majority from the very beginning.
For our inherently egocentric, self-serving, exploitative nature it doesn’t matter if I excessively accumulate a few chickens at the expense of others, or I accumulate billions of dollars on a bank account with today’s practices, manipulations.
We are constantly motivated by overcoming, ruling over others, to raise our individualistic self to be the greatest. And we are all programmed like this but there is a great difference in the “hunger”, willingness to sacrifice ourselves and others to achieve what we want. It is this “hunger” that differentiates people, putting the most selfish, egotistic to the top of Humanity’s pyramid, leaving the rest to serve them, to be oppressed, manipulated by them.
Also even if started colonizing other planets as we make Earth uninhabitable, without changing Human nature we would repeat the same historic mistake, crimes, vicious cycles.
Thus if we want a solution — and our collective survival depends on this now — that is only found by purposefully, proactively, methodically changing, upgrading our inherent Nature, copying in ourselves how elements, parts of Nature’s perfectly balanced system interconnect, complement each other.
The fact that Humans have to become “like Nature” by their own conscious efforts, changing, evolving purposefully against their inherent nature gives us our Human advantage, our chance to become the “crowns of evolution”.