Biological altruism is not about being nice… or at least not always.
Its function is rooted in defining in-group from out-group and is roughly tied to Dunbar’s Number. 

While intellectual and cultural factors truly can and do expand the boundaries of our conception of the in-group…. 

There will always, by necessity be a disconnect between our lizard brain’s reaction vs our reasoning brain’s reaction to that boundary.

(and its always important to remember that our reasoning brain evolved to serve the lizard brain)

You will be more emotionally impacted by the death of your dog than the death of a 100,000 people far away you’ve never met. 

No point in feeling guilty about that… if it were otherwise you’d never be able to function. You’d be prostrate from the onslaught of constant grief.

But this ‘biological altruism’ problem leads to problems in governance (decision mechanisms) which, as  we’ve oft seen in history leads to cycles of oligarchy, corruption and collapse.

(this disconnect is also, unfortunately very helpful for the comfort of those drone pilots and those who send them on their missions.)

This would likely be a hurdle faced by any social species on any planet attempting to scale beyond its roots.

It may be why the universe is so damned quiet… but that’s just wild speculation.

Nevertheless, I suspect the path through this social bottleneck is very narrow… and that most social species don’t make it.

Your interest in revisions in corporate governance and the perils in the future of war…

Are not unrelated.

I’d suggest paying attention to our roots… there are clues there.

From wikipedia;

“[the script] began its transformation into WarGames when Parkes and Lasker met Peter Schwartz from the Stanford Research Institute. “There was a new subculture of extremely bright kids developing into what would become known as hackers,” said Schwartz. Schwartz made the connection between youth, computers, gaming, and the military.”

Magic beans! an open source storyline from wikipedia to add to that mashup.

Puff the Magic Dragon
Yarrow now sings the line “A dragon lives forever, but not so little
boys” as “A dragon lives forever, but not so girls and boys.” The
original poem also had a verse that did not make it into the song. In
it, Puff found another child and played with him after returning.
Neither Yarrow nor Lipton remember the verse in any detail, and the
paper that was left in Yarrow’s typewriter in 1958 has since been lost.

During the Vietnam War the AC-47 Spooky
gunship was nicknamed “Puff the Magic Dragon”, after the song. The
North Vietnamese had named the AC-47 the “Dragon” or “Dragon ship”
because of its armament and firepower – the nickname soon caught on, and
the American troops began to call the AC-47 “Puff the Magic Dragon”.

Both tune and elements of the lyrics were adapted in the controversial parody “Barack the Magic Negro”, written and recorded by Paul Shanklin for Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, after the term was first applied to presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic, David Ehrenstein,
in a Los Angeles Times op ed column of March 19, 2007. Yarrow condemned
the act as “shocking and saddening in the extreme,” stating that
“taking a children’s song and twisting it in such vulgar, mean-spirited
way, is a slur to our entire country and our common agreement to move
beyond racism. . . . Puff, himself, if asked, would certainly agree.”