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and another thing: you say that competition is natural. now, is that because you've seen the research, or because it feels that way to you? either way, the research says it's natural because as far as anyone knows, it is. we've not really had any species that within themselves decide to share everything, because up until now, there has been a shortage of everything, so in the back of our minds somewhere is lurking this thought that sometime we might run out. what is the answer to this in an ape's head? get stronger. learn how to move faster. be able to outwit anything that challenges my ownership of these here bananas.
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You're displaying an ignorance of history. Excepting societies living on the fringes, if you contrast gatherer-hunter groups in a given region to stratified societies in the same region, it becomes patently obvious resource distribution is less meritocratic and more democratic for the gatherer-hunters than the stratified societies, even though stratified societies produce more.
That being stated, it's no accident that any and every single society which has moved beyond gatherer-hunter has adopted work specialization and the social & economic stratification which accompanies it.