On Nicole Wallace’s podcast, Ken Burns, the great historian said that when racists found that blacks were going to be on their favorite baseball team, the higher quality individuals embraced the fact, came to accept it. Not that simple. What makes higher quality? I think the decision was based on doors of opportunity, including agents.
Hammurabi wrote a code of laws for Babylon 4000 years ago, it was with the wisdom that the society as a whole would be much more productive, predictable, and happy if laws and enforcement curtailed violent, unfair, and disruptive behavior.
But now we have to go deeper. We know that men can aspire and conspire to circumvent, change, and rewrite laws to gain power and influence that is beneficicial to a small group but harmful to the greater number of people in a society. To make long principle short, the problem is that man, as a species, community, or nation has not yet engineered a way to control the small minority of humans who seek unfair, disproportionate wealth, power, or other advantage over the society creating a 2 tiered system of haves and have nots.
So the initial question is – how do we as a society control those few who are hypermotivated to gain huge personal power to the detriment of society. There wust be new institutions, attitudes, stated moral principles. This question is more theoretical. More practical is How do we reverse the present situation where the top 1% owns 32% of the wealth and the bottom 50% own 2 per cent of it? . slavery
