My question is whether the natural tendency that exists everywhere in nature, for 10-20% of the population to accumulate 90% of the food or wealth or mass or whatever, trumps any man-made attempt at establishing a long-term functioning economy. It seems that this tendency dominates communism easily, socialism less so, and capitalism less still. But when it does, we get cronyism.
IMOHO, it's the sociopaths who do this. Jews are well established at sociopathic tendencies. Transparency makes cronyism much more difficult.
It’s my understanding that this is established science. In any system where there is a competition for resources, a hyper-effective minority end up with most of the stuff. This applies to plants, animals, stars, and everything else.
I agree with you that in humans, psychopaths occupy this role since they don’t have a moral sense to curb their appetite for domination.
Oddly enough, I think about 10% of people are psychopaths.
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