The addicts of accumulation justified their habit through the pseudoscience of social Darwinism

so Peter the Prince offered his own corollary:

“Mutual Aid; a Factor of Evolution”

Pete pointed out that “it was an evolutionary emphasis on cooperation instead of competition in the Darwinian sense that made for the success of species, including the human,” a fact that could be witnessed in any sustainable village or even family. Or job. Or sports team.

Or military.

Competition, although necessary for survival, is exhausting.

Which is why, even among the animal kingdom, bluffs and posturing make up a majority of aggression.

Ain’t nobody got time for all that fighting

In fact symbiosis, or as the prince called it “mutualism,” is the reigning pattern of ecosystems from key species to the whole.