Not to get into theology but hat you just said is how I feel about Matthew 19 from the Bible. It's the story where a young man from a wealthy family is begging Jesus to become a new disciple. Jesus gives him a bunch of tasks, like respect his family, keep the sabbath, stuff like that. Jesus's final task is the young man has to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor. The wealthy young man refuses and walks away in shame. That's when Jesus says the famous line, "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven."

To me this story is a very obvious condemnation of wealth and how it eats your soul. The rich young man was able to follow Christ's orders right until the point of personal sacrifice. And I keep being told by evangelicals that what Christ meant is that only some rich people go to heaven. Yet that's not the story at all. Jesus is saying a prerequisite of entering heaven is that a rich person must abandon their wealth. They have to stop being rich, because being rich is a parasite on their soul that must be removed for them to regain humanity.

Probably a mix of both, but definitely think that our society rewards anti-social behaviors when you go big on them, and also if your desire is to be a nazi pedo, the safest way to achieve your dream is to pursue vast power so that no one can hold you accountable…. I think the basic might makes right foundation of right thinking selects for this also.