Is it better to be on top or to have a natural “enemy”?

There is an old Indian Tale about The Elk and the wolf... Hunter and the Hunted. It explains how the relationship between these predator and prey is actually mutually beneficial, keeping both the hunted and the hunters strong and alert, both striving to be faster, stronger, more cunning, as a result of the other.

My question is, is it folly to complain of having hunters And hunted amongst us-The so called “top of the food chain”? Should we be happy to sit on top, growing slow, dumb and weak, with no reason to strive for faster, stronger or more cunning? Wouldn’t it be the natural way of things? To create the hunter and the hunted in order to keep “the top of the food chain” evolving into faster and better, to avoid our species ascending into a state of de evolution? They say “necessity is the mother of invention”... did we, quite literally “invent” a predator for the “top” for our own overall “good”?

Does that make any sense at all?