That’s a hall mark of our civilisation/society, not our species. Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and the vast majority of cultures in that time have been relatively stable, with checks on excessive greed.
(see Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn Of Everything for some good examples.)
niartenyaw@midwest.social 2 months ago
that’s unfortunately only true because the greedy groups have destroyed all the non-greedy ones by slaughter or forced participation