What we want here is a highly ‘unnatural’ result, for the less competitive, less intelligent thing (the humans) to stay on top or at least stick around and have a bunch of resources, despite our inability to earn them in the marketplace, or ability to otherwise compete for them or for the exercise of power. So you have to find a way to intervene on the situation that fixes this, while preserving what we care about, that we can collectively agree to implement. And wow, that seems hard.
I think many people’s unstated mental assumption is “the government (or God) wouldn’t allow things to get that bad”. These are people who’ve never, for example, lived through a war (that wasn’t overseas).
I think many people’s unstated mental assumption is “the government (or God) wouldn’t allow things to get that bad”. These are people who’ve never, for example, lived through a war (that wasn’t overseas).