Economies need to be designed to provide for their participants first and foremost. Natural selection will not look fondly on a species that selects for the prosperity of a few at the expense of all others. Self-destruction is inevitable.

Lynn Margulis taught us that life developed and flourished because of the processes of symbiogenesis between various microbiota over the last 3.9 billion years. With mankind, this symbiosis innate to life has ended.