>>64510326
>You're conflating competition with mindless rapacious conquest, though.
>Competition has consistently transformed as civilization and systems become complex, and it is only atavistic savage primitive states which engage in "Ooga booga I smash you you gib me land" anymore. And we can see how poorly those states are at achieving their goals.
Competition has transformed as we reached prodigious energy storages underneath the ground which provided us with enough free energy to compete in consumption instead of conquest.
Once our resources run dry, we will no longer be capable of consumptive competition and will in return be required to compete through conquest.

When oil gets too expensive, our civilization collapses and we get a new dark ages with feudalism and warlords.