[vosper]

First, I'm sorry about your troubles.

But it's not this way everywhere: there are countries (I'm thinking of Scandinavian) where inequality is perhaps not so bad, and there are countries where governments are making major and genuine efforts to support businesses and people who are at risk of (or who have) lost their jobs due to Covid.

There's bad leadership and bad behaviour in many places, but not everywhere all at the same time.

[RestlessMind]

Global population is 7.8B. Scandinavia's population is 25-26M (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). So your point applies to countries with 0.33% of humanity, which is not representative at all. Maybe add a few tiny countries or city-states and I would be surprised if their aggregative population crosses 2% of the overall global population.

So I believe GP's point still stands - humanity has not learned the lesson from thousands of years of its history.

[vosper]

The entire rest of the world that's not part of Scandinavia is not the polar opposite. There are many countries, and much diversity in their equality and government responses.

[cutemonster]

Our genes don't change and improve that fast

Good points about the numbers