The Side Effects of Self-Actualizing

Why do we have such disparity, inequity, and suffering in the world?

The Washington Post reports (below) four stories as though they were not related. Clearly they seem so to me! and to people who are commenting on them. Some ask why and what we must do. I decided give a response I have been playing with for decades in a more or less concise form. It has a single sourcing mechanism but must be faced systemically.

(Washington Post stories)