There is no planet B
People have said this before. But as a species, we can choose overall civility, including sharing resources, or we can have a steel cage death metal match every single day. I'm sure the effete rich would get a vicarious thrill out of watching the masses kill each other. I'm sure the callous bastards cutting services and inflating prices are feeling sick pleasure as they check world meter for deaths and count their profits.
We have got to get along, if we want humans, humanity, to survive. That means we have to share resources, be content with less and control our urge to have more, be the alpha, win.
At some point in the distant past, our species went from a feeling of relief at seeing another human, to trying to enslave or kill any strangers. We went from shelters in a grassy meadow to walled villages. Many cultures devised rules and laws for their population to get along and make sure the threat wasn't from within. Someone once wrote that social security didn't just protect the people who needed it, but also protected the rich from uprisings powered by the less fortunate.
As a species, we've forgotten hard learned history. We need laws. We need social parameters that define what is acceptable behavior and what isn't. But we're in a time that anything goes. While the left is accepting differences that don't hurt anyone (such as being a minority, a woman, or LGBQT+), the right wing is encouraging behavior that can hurt anyone. Look at the changes, just in my lifetime -- relaxed gun laws, rescinding civil rights, accepting assault and torture as actions our culture can live with. We can have laws and define acceptable behavior without making our society a rigid nightmare in which our humanity can't thrive. If we don't get off this path, we are goners.
I thought we'd advanced since WWII. I understand that we aren't all Pollyannas, but western culture was making an effort to teach what is acceptable and what isn't. I'm seeing that while people might have conformed, it was only skin deep. We are human after all and trying to overcome our nature is a lifelong job. But we can't quit trying. The current leadership is encouraging us to give up and let the stronger eat the weaker, while they bet on the results.
Even if we end up fighting over scraps, we have to find a way to be kind as we struggle for survival.