Social inequality is fine. The extent to which it is currently unequal is not fine. People should be rewarded by society if they benefit it for the purposes of motivation, but not so much at the expense of those who can’t benefit it or just aren’t benefiting it - but this is happening. How do you solve this?
Well you don’t solve it by vacating its vicinity. More black and white thinking from you: you can be both supporting of customs with which you disagree by being involved in their practices, whilst also working to change them because you don’t support them. To you this is immediately dismissable as hypocrisy, and no doubt there are hypocrites who are partial to customs they think or claim they are against, but change is either going to come from the outside against the international military imperialism of the west (impossible) or from within. If you are going to choose the non-futile option, then you are going to be associated with that which you don’t support - thereby at least passively supporting it. But this is actually an advantage, because you can both take advantage of any of its relative benefits, spread your message with others as one of them, keep up to date with its machinations and develop a deep understanding of what they really are. You put yourself at a great disadvantage by dissociating yourself with which that which you don’t support - and if that makes me a hypocrite in your eyes, then I would rather be a hypocrite who was effective in undoing that which he does not support, than a non-hypocritical fool who will get nothing done in line with that which he supports. But it’s not actually hypocrisy, it’s practicality.
The only use for lumping all human nature into one maximally abstract set of behaviours is to compare us to non-human things, which you don’t even do - you count humans as no different to any other animals. You might as well use the term animal nature rather than specifically human nature, and maybe you don’t even see this nature as different to that of non-animal life: “the nature of life” is perhaps what you might as well be saying. Maybe just “nature”? Everything in nature, even the non-living is merely reacting to entropy in its own characteristic way that you might even argue is its bid for continued existence as itself…
I don’t even disagree with this generalised conception of the way things are, but in relation to Capitalism and humans, there are certain ways in which the nature of humans differs that is compatible with it and others which are incompatible. For example, Capitalism requires a desire to compete against others for their means to live, and I’ve never felt the need to do this. Maybe if my life took a terrible turn and I became desperate I would be forced to change the nature that I have come to identify with myself - perhaps you would call this my “true” nature: the same nature of all things. Go ahead, and maybe you’re right, but throughout my life my nature has never been this and as such is at odds with what Capitalism requires of me as a human and my nature.
There’s nothing I can do to stop you from not seeing this, most likely refusing to see this, or at least rationalising it away to justify your negative perception of humanity. All I can do is tell you what I see both first hand in myself and second hand in others, and give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you’ve somehow not come across anyone like me or others like me. No doubt you will deny our existence and demand that we are what you want to see for the sake of holding onto your worldview, despite apparently not wanting to see only your worldview. Mine is hardly rosy, it’s just not as conflicting and rigid as yours. Perhaps relative to yours its rosy, but it’s far from the rosy perception of life that the optimistically naive may hold.
With regard to “less and less over time” I meant centralisation of power. Monarchies had one autocratic ruler, Feudalism devolved power to Feudal lords, Capitalism devolved power to Capitalists, and Socialism is the further devolution of power to Society as a whole - it’s just the continuation of an inevitable pattern that is going to occur with organising more and more people in the world. Lots of things are getting worse, and there is certainly a great deal of power left in the hands of very few, but in this way they are getting better even if they haven’t got to where they need to be yet. Don’t hate the messenger, I’m just telling you what’s been happening over the course of history…