> It doesn't have to be this way, it's a product of our laws and can be changed
I don't think any of your three statements are true, based on my (limited) knowledge of history. Far as I know, the only way to break the feedback loop is to restart it - a revolution or the like - and build something in its place that maximizes the time until the loop has to be broken again.
If anything, I'd guess that it's human nature to try and amass power/money/influence/cows, and the more you have the easier it is to get more. That's not a fault with our laws, it's what people do - on average, in aggregate.
Society and laws are constructs, and we constructed them to be this way. We do not need to restart from zero to fix things.
People do those things because the pressure to avoid doing those things is far too weak, and the pressure to be a good person is one of the things that society should provide.
Ok, but that pressure is brought to bear from somewhere. If there's people who are given the power to apply that pressure, then that power is now something people can amass.
I don't know how you're imagining that society can provide that pressure without also giving ambitous people a way to collect power.
Capitalism unchecked tends towards monopolies and subsistence wage for those lucky enough to have a job. I agree this is a product of our human instincts, but the only thing stopping it - short of a revolution - are thoughtful laws designed to balance the entrepreneurial spirit with the need to treat everybody equitably.
I don't think any of your three statements are true, based on my (limited) knowledge of history. Far as I know, the only way to break the feedback loop is to restart it - a revolution or the like - and build something in its place that maximizes the time until the loop has to be broken again.
If anything, I'd guess that it's human nature to try and amass power/money/influence/cows, and the more you have the easier it is to get more. That's not a fault with our laws, it's what people do - on average, in aggregate.