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In any system maintained by humans greed will eventually become systemically enabled. Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Monarchy...it doesn't matter.
When there is power and money to be had the people who love those things will ceaselessly flock to it and no Government in the history of humanity has ever managed to stop those people from eventually taking over.
You’re both right.
Greed and psychopathy will float to the top of every system, because the greediest and most psychopathic will inevitably see the system as a game to be won.
Ideally we shun it, but the “useful psychopath” is helpful to our own greed.
If only we could prevent it, but I don’t have that answer.
There is no answer. You could literally create a policing body whose sole function was to find the greedy and psychopathic and remove them from society and that body would quickly become home to the very people its charged with removing. It takes so very few people to start the inevitable decline and its impossible to perfectly screen them out forever.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't try. This is a very defeatist attitude you seem to have. I get it, btw.