We live in a competitive world that rewards competitive people, people who will do whatever it takes to win, people who will sacrifice their souls, eat their neighbors children, turn in their parents to the thought police, postpone all earthly pleasures permanently, if necessary to win. We live in a society, in short, that in order to win, there MUST BE people you stepped over to win, people you had to out-compete, people you were better able to narrow down the dimensions of life you were willing to enjoy to hone the knife you were able to out cut them with before they could cut you out.
We have created a world in which only those who can compete in commerce, win in business, be self sufficient. have the time and resources to go to special schools, join special groups of privilege, know the right people, come from the right background, get lucky, and on and on.
Because we have caused money to be a requirement for survival, we have made the making of money our God and created a value system in which only those who can make it are worthy of life. But we did not evolve as humans that way. We evolved as small collections, families and tribes that split up the functions required to live communally such that the kinds of folk who would in our world be the winners, could only win with the support of others. One couldn't acquire a trophy bride, a butler, maid or cook, a warm skin to wear in winter, or the best stone tools, because you had a lot of money.
A whole range of social skills, social sharing, and social responsibility went with survival.
We have created a world of competitive individuals at war with each other in the economic field, with the all mighty dollar as the goal, and for there to be a few highly successful winners there must be massive numbers of losers, And this is the structure the advantaged keep in place for as long as they can until it rots from within which it will if it isn't fixed.