And even if that’s not inherently true, it’s certainly the “philosophy” of human nature that these sociopaths are relying on (perhaps based on their own internal “intuition” about human nature, which I imagine skews…capitalist, to put it kindly).
And at the end of the day, if the “people aren’t capable of effecting collective positive change, because we are all at our cores selfish and violent” isn’t as true as they needed it to be to justify their actions, they can always make sure the plebs are continually socially and politically “nudged” into paranoia and infighting to prove themselves right.
