That is what drove social evolution, that if the group could agree on you as the next in line, sleeping deeper in the tree, on the thick branches, that dont give you a warning if the cat gets to you- tag your it.
Socializing today, from the first bullying (nuke-tests) in school to the advanced stages of mobbing at work- is still not far from this intial cold-war that tought us how to speak about who should be the next one to be fed.
Its horrific, its ugly and as it goes with truths, that makes it more likely.
But today, we can not only avoid this, we can even detect situations that trigger such behaviour excesses (age and ability uniform groups, external performance stress) and can avoid this, by declaring a external (virtual) group member as the next to be fed. "Your department is under a lot of stress .. but at least you do not mess it up like this other department, who are about to see the axe, because they cant team up."
TL,DR; Know you nature well, do not go into denial, hack it within the limits of the whats possible, nature is not a destiny.