>>51599480copes and accuses of cope, nice. no, it's not zero sum but you're about to get an hour lecture on evolutionary pressures and Nash equilibria and stuff, but to summarize even without "design" strategies become extant and color the entire thing at our timescale with founder effects, that's what makes tradeoffs like this rather likely instead of just a bunch of pure KALLISTI to-the-fairest optimizations like you're suggesting. the theoretical construct you're suggesting would be waaaaaay more optimal, I mean in a sense you're right, how many actual ugly people are there? and not just fat/on drugs/mentally non-optimal but really actually ugly? it's actually a little uncommon but the system is so much more than way I describe than you describe I think of your version of it as "Taoist" or "having Chinese characteristics" as we might better know it in english. That moral system is actually based on the assumption of individual immortality: any sufficiently advanced individual is assured eternal life through their individual power rather than a shared eternity-in-heaven, it solves the problem of selfishness by literally using death: your promise of immortality doesn't come true and you become too old to do anything about it and too experienced to expect an unrealistic outcome so in your mortality you never actually lash out, you just burn out like a candle.
so I kinda think the "some people are just better and the higher stats interlock" system you're suggesting is just taoist horseshit that got into you somehow, it's more likely you're observing speciated pools of strategy than just having an immortality dick waving contest