Success historically did not mean control of scarce resources, often through fighting
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False measures of success allow flawed systems to expand without competition 1 0 1Success historically meant control of scarce resources, often through fighting 0 0 2Successful people from history who weren't ruthless include mathematicians, writers, and artists 1 0 2The value of a company is not determined rationally but is essentially a bet on its future success 1 0 2This opposition results in an uninterrupted fight that ends either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society or in the common ruin of the contending classes 1 0 2The bourgeoisie gets over these crises by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces and by the conquest of new markets and more thorough exploitation of old ones 1 0 2Improved means of communication created by modern industry help in centralizing numerous local struggles into one national struggle between classes 1 0 2Humanity lived a brutal existence, murdering each other, dying of starvation, child mortality in the 90 percent range for thousands of generations 1 0 2New governance models have sprung up pushing for a particular vision of fairness, or the desire to centralize power 0 0 1A governance model that pushes for a particular vision of fairness, or the desire to centralize power, can subtly erode individual freedom of action 0 0 1