I work with a fair few, and I’d would love to ask them what their thoughts are in all this stuff, and twenty years ago I would have done, but nowadays that a fast track to the dole queue so I shan’t.
The outlier perfect scenario is the point of the example. IF all other factors are identical in a mixed environment the situation is perceived as and is arguable to be, unfair. Real life is rarely like this, and in such a situation one side may feel very differently to the other. Treat people as you find them, is my opinion. Behave like an animal, be treated like one. Behave like a member of human civilised society, be treated that way.
My point is that if a society
feels something to be unfair you have a cohesion issue. In the perfect example that’s triggered by two equally competent people people treated differently. IRL it is more likely to be triggered by the ‘you’re all white devils I hope your kids go extinct’ that the CRT crowd push. The feeling of unfair treatment is what creates societal division and societal division is a negative thing.
What’s most interesting from a game/eco theory POV is how it plays out with the individual benefits and disadvantages vs the group. I suspect a lot of those scenarios end up with one lot massacring the other.
Even more down that rabbit hole, what often triggers the whole genocide/ massacre bit is not necessarily‘unfairness’ on its own. It’s when you have significant pressure on resources - there’s some interesting work done on the Rwandan horrors that argues that the single biggest driver for the kicking off of the violence was (radio broadcasts aside) farm size - population pressures and the system of land being handed down among sons had led to a critically small area of land per family unit (too small to survive with.) now add a background of ethnic tension, and an ignition event (those radio broadcasts) and boom.
The text of those broadcasts is worth a look. ‘Cockroaches’ and the way they speak about the other group is pretty similar to some of the stuff I’ve heard about abolishing whiteness. It’s going to be very interesting when white people become a minority