The question of which organizations can succeed is determined first by the laws of thermodynamics. Living organizations must consume resources, by which I mean energy and raw materials. And so they must occasionally refresh their supplies. The question of which organizations can succeed is further determined by the craft of the organizations. Since the resources which organizations require exist in patterns within the universe, a successful organization must adopt its actions to these patterns.
Organizations adopt their actions to patterns by following decision rules.
So the organizations which succeed are not necessarily nice. The rules which determine whether an organization succeeds originate in physical reality, and not our aesthetic sense. Larger organizations grow because they enable exploitation of larger or more complex patterns of resources than their smaller or simpler constituents could exploit. Whether consciously or unconsciously, constituents combine their actions in such a way that together they exploit a resource which none of them individually could have exploited. 6 When larger organizations form, thus exploiting a previously untapped resource, the constituents typically will live better because of it.