Welcome to the pyramid game - The game humans play in life as a sub-game inside humanity... (slavery kinda of)...

Bees and ants even enslave their own kind or milk other species.. they too are animals living in colony situations...

So perhaps very similar to that of The Animal Kingdom; a pyramid-like hierarchy or similar chain is there AND the added pyramid within human system.

Humans have some choice but seems like it's much of the same that to use others, get ahead or make sure of your survival by suppressing others. (actually does make sense else people start kicking you out and don't expect anything else to save you!)

So then it can seem better you're on top or commanding the chain / pyramid or else you might find yourself the one losing out and at the bottom.
But what you have to do to get there or keep our position is basically the main part of the bad itself.

A cruel world and consistent suffering dynamic is indeed.

And those who choose not to dominate at all, seem to get dominated / left out / less heard of...

Comments welcome.