I think Will Durant in The Reformation, illustrates that de Comines way back in Medieval France had figured out our problem.
“Neither natural reason nor our own knowledge, nor love of our neighbor, nor anything else is always sufficient to restrain us from doing violence to one another, or withhold us from retaining what we already have, or to deter us from usurping the possessions of others by all possible means …Wicked men grow the worse for their knowledge,…..”
Philippe de Comines (1447?-1511)
French diplomat, political advisor, and historian whose Memoires (1524) are among the most perceptive historical documents of the Middle Ages.
So now, what are we going to do about it?