The Evolutionary Advantages of Playing Victim

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Something I wanted to clarify - by 'nice things' I mean nice things like high-trust society, institutions that work, monetary systems that work, not needing to compete with national corporations paying cash to buy a house, not needing to constantly worry if your mechanic, doctor, lawyer, etc. is trying to play asymmetric knowledge games against you, etc..

Half of the issue is us plowing through a struggle most people don't have quite the same way, the other half is the amoral nature of social status competition and how any advantage of any kind, no matter how far below the waist, is worth exploiting because it's 'life as a gene pageant' rather than 'life as people growing, learning, and cultivating wisdom together' which is something it seems like we've taken seriously from time to time but right now mostly discarded.