The authors of an article in Psychological Inquiry made this observation:

Substantial evidence suggests that when the values and goals necessary for the smooth functioning of ACC American corporate capitalism become increasingly central to individuals and to institutions, the result is a corresponding conflict with three other aims: concern for the broader community and the world; close, intimate relationships; and feeling worthy and autonomous.

As shared by Reza Baradaran Talking about the fact that we share 9,899% identical DNA with chimpanzee Everything that we are that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that 1% difference in DNA. It has to, because that's the difference. The Hubble telescope, these grand, that's in that 1%.

Maybe, everything that we are that is not the chimp, is not as smart compared to the chimp as we tell ourselves it is. Maybe the difference between constructing and launching a Hubble telescope and a chimp combining two finger motions as sign language, Maybe that difference is not all that great. We tell ourselves it is just the same way we label our books "Optical illusions", we tell ourselves it's a lot. Maybe it's almost nothing.

The advantage of more reliable and greater food supplies came with disadvantages. Skeletal remains indicate that people in agricultural societies were not as well nourished as hunter-gatherers, who ate a much wider variety of foods; their height and life expectancy declined and they had to work significantly more hours per week in the fields than they ever had collecting roots, seeds, berries, and nuts. In addition to the declines in height and general nutrition and the negative impact on women with the rise of social hierarchies, there was another drawback to those societies that developed to rely exclusively on farming.

Agricultural productivity (output per farmer and per area of land) did not increase much because the technologies used remained mostly unchanged. Therefore, as populations of non-farming classes grew relative to the number of farmers and elites desired greater quantities of wealth, there was a need to expand the area under production or to conquer other peoples in order to extract greater quantities of surplus (tribute). This more socially privileged stratum of people developed into a social class when it begins to identify its own interests (in acquiring more wealth and status) as if they were the interests of the entire community. At that point, the interests of this proto-ruling elite diverge from the those of everyone else, as they attempt to force increases in productivity by those laboring directly on the land, an increase in land area (through conquest), and a larger and docile labor force (slavery, kidnapping).