If the strong are supposed to survive over the weak, why do corporations need constant bailouts from our politicians? Using the public treasury to save a dying corporation is not optimal, and yet in capitalism, this happens often. The societal structure is what permits us to survive, including the survival of businesses or people. Human beings are not innately selfish, nor are we the opposite, innately benevolent. The conditions of production determine human nature. If human beings were selfish, why do families protect each other? Is it selfish because the parents see themselves in their kids and want a better life for them in order to continue the bloodline? But not all families act as such since many parents abuse their children without any regard toward the kids' future. Our economic system produces these families, and today, that would be capitalism. Human nature, it is sometimes said, is all about selfishness, based on the sexual reproduction of the species. Not quite. It does not explain the fluidity of sexuality. Why do gay or asexual people exist? And how do they exist? The idea that human life is simply to survive and to sexually reproduce is evidently false. Humanity exists through systems. Systems that provide for our survival, which we then want to reproduce. Capitalism is such a system, and so is the family. If humans are selfish and we assert that socialism is more efficient at serving human selfishness, we are misunderstanding the class struggle.

Liberals wish for a meritocracy, or at least so they claim. Not everyone is born equal. That's true, but mainly because we are born in different material conditions. For example, a person born in a wealthy family. Such equality would require the abolition of money and private property. Socialism eventually aims at such equality, once the means of production are easily reproduced and improved with ease, thus rendering private property useless.

However, therein lies a problem. Even through socialism and all the way to communism, inequality exists. How can we explain the existence of so-called low ambitious people? Why are some people scientists while others are janitors? Until we achieve a communist system, this question will remain, and many will answer with a biological explanation.

Let's return to the system of the family. Parents don't have an unbreakable, or I should say, observable, link towards their children. Nothing connects the parents to the children in an immutable, concrete way. Society expects them to act as parents; the children need them for survival. The family system is a connection, and this is considered immutable, concrete. Insofar as it is considered to be the optimal choice for raising children. Similarly, capitalism is viewed as the optimal choice for the management of our society.

In the workplace, the boss is a dictator, much like the father of a family, and sometimes, he even declares the business to be one big family. He is correct. The relationship between children and their father is akin to the workers depending on their boss for survival. However, it is systems, not individuals, that permit us to survive.

Human beings are selfish when it comes to survival. The same goes for economic classes. The proletariat is selfish as a class. And on a higher plane, the human race is selfish as one species. Here, the human race is defined as one. But the whole makes the thing. Capitalism or socialism makes a significant difference in the solidarity found within the species; for example, the way the US or China reacted to covid.

Therefore, the only answer we can currently give on the question of human selfishness is that the workers, as a class, are surviving but dying. Selfish and yet organizing.

Shit. I thought the silliness of pointing out lead poisoning as the source of the problem was like a "tone indicator." I apologize for the confusion.

Sorry, comrade, but I don't understand your comment. I was just being sarcastic towards a few users who now apparently believe the US is ideologically stubborn because of mass lead poisoning or for some weird biological reason.

Maybe you should tell this to the brat, Bronstein_Tardigrade. Personally, I will attack whoever I want whenever I deem it necessary.

I misread your comments then. Yeah, it's the other user who actually pissed me off, not you. Sorry for attacking you like that.