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Resorces are limited and human wants are insatiable. Men will be forever a greedy being motivated above all things by self interest.
Bertrand Russell said this and so did Ayn Rand.
I hate that I'd have to reference Rand but sadly lately I've found this to be an aboslute truth.
Of course you can blame the system. And yes you wouldn't even be wrong. Yes the system is fucked. But sadly that is the way it is. Man is not so young a creature anymore. We've been around for a while, and all over the years you'll find that history is littered with men and women trying their bests--sometimes with good intentions sometimes with bad-- to find a better, all inclusive system that would practically solve the problems of man and bring about an equal fairer distribution of the scarce resources.
Sometimes the results have been commendable, viz the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and sometimes the outcome have been disastrous and catrasphotic: Hitler, Soviet Union, Mao. Hello Socialists, lol.
This goes to show that the problem in fact is not in the system, but in the men ourselves.
Self preservation will always be the thriving motive of all homo sapiens. And for that there will always be a thriving class and a poor class. And even though I hate this fact myself, sadly this is how it is.