While the success of capitalism is based on this basic human instinct of self-promotion, the line dividing self-promotion from prevarication is thin. Capitalism ends up fostering success for those people who have a tendency to prevaricate and impose their self-interest: an ability that served us well as a specie when we were competing for food and resources in the wild but that could have catastrophic consequences now, given the level of complexity and interconnectedness of our societies.
