Societies of equals yield only average individuals. Without adversity, the strong grow dull. Without competition, the weak win more ground than they should. What follows is a regression to the mean for all participants. And then, a limited society begins to rot.
The forest you see around me is a managed forest. Most of the trees here were planted by people. These types of forests are often divided up into square sections of trees of about the same age.
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