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That's not even slightly true, but human nature makes it end up being that way. We're real good at coming up with isms incompatible with our nature, so they never work as planned, often with irony too.
Ah yes, the biblical "human nature is flawed so we can't ever make the world better" argument.
Ignoring the 1000's of years of humans making the world better.
We used to have child sacrifice and we don't anymore. We used to have chattel slavery and we don't anymore.
Our economies can get better and if someone tells you otherwise they are lying to preserve their own power.