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>Humanity consists of the few who own all the boxes, living in opulent luxury, and the many who don't and barely subsist

To me that represents lingering inhumanity.

There are still plenty of people around the world who have maintained this high lifestyle proudly since their early ancestors first got into opulent condition. But there are even more descendants who have not been able to maintain a previous level of opulence at all and would do anything to get it back.

Then you've got a whole bigger group who never came close and are even more envious than those who once had luxury. So much of the time it's easy to recognize that improved wealth is a result of fortune one way or another. When you get an aggregate amount of greed focused on manipulating fortunes, the best they can do for themselves is when everyone else ends up barely subsisting.

IIRC, civilization was supposed to bring an end to the barely subsistence thing.

Doesn't look too civil when things trend backward toward medieval.