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Food chain?

And if your social position is really high, you will probably be able to get more than your fair share.

What a terrible thing to say, I know. But that is a fact of life all humans have to deal with. In the natural world, dominant animals get to eat first. They eat their fill and leave the rest of the food to others. They don’t horde, and therefore there is a much greater degree of fairness in the wild – from the human point of view, of course.

Anyways, the point of our discussion is, for humans, there is always competition for survival no matter where you are in the food chain, or up the social ladder.

Yes, there always is competition, no matter how high or low your social position is.

I don’t have to give examples, do I? I mean, you look right, left and center and you see it. It is everywhere. You feel it. It’s in the atmosphere.

If you don’t feel it, then you must be very insensitive.

But, if you really don’t feel it, it is probably good for you, both health-wise and otherwise.

Anyways, that’s “food chain” plus my two cents worth of idle comments on social competition. Here are media examples to give you a better grasp of the concept:

1. Republican Party loyalty has just been dramatically tested from coast to coast.

In New York’s grudge fight, a Republican mayor jumped ship to save a sinking Democratic governor; that was flat-out party disloyalty. Contrariwise, in California, a GOP presidential hopeful disagreed with a Republican governor on principle: that was in the zestiest tradition of fighting for a party’s soul.