Why has our society become a mechanism to see who can screw over whom the most?

[Augiedog]

[RKP5637]

1. Hate media perpetuates it for profit! There's big money in hatred and people in

America are damn gullible and turn on each other. And politicians use it for subversive means and dollars.

[Trust Buster]

2. Every economic system has it's drawbacks. Capitalism has always been susceptible to the potential

of greed spiraling out of control. I think that is what we are witnessing at all levels of American society. 2008 taught the American people nothing I am sad to say.

[Sailor65x1]

3. Because Mankind corrupts everything it touches...

Everything

[Wounded Bear]

4. What is 10k years of anthropology and history for 1000, Alex...

Progressivism attempts to ameliorate the natural impulses of the animal that is man, and has hit a bit of a rocky patch lately.

[kairos12]

5. Ayn Rand philosophy has given the 1% a framework to justify their greed and arrogance. This

attitude has been passed downward to the less fortunate so that only winning matters.