NotMVH

An ego is not a tangable concrete object. It can both be defined as both The sense of self, the "I" or how I belive you are referring to it, an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others (straight from google).

How can you judge someones worth? If someone feels superior to another, they may label them as having an ego but, that is their own opinion of them. It is an abstract idea of a sigular perception and not a trait that others may perceive.

So, if we see the ego perception of personality. Then I can agree that personality has an enormous effect of not only how men and woman interact but hwo we are and how we live. If we agree in a general humad condition, male physiology pre-determines us to be dominant, power seeking and oportunist. Our construction leads us to pre-determined traits due to it's benifits with sexual reproduction.

The current trend in North American society is not towards monogomy but oportunist monogomy. Although when compared to ape social interactions we do not dominate in such a clear hierchy as the alphamale / challenger parallel, subtly man and women continue to dominate others in society. Those who have more resources, the least abstract being money, have power over others who still need to work to provide the fundamental basics for themselves. Hwo has more time to pursue woman, the CEO who checks into the office for an hour a week or the twenty something employed in his mail room just scraping by working 12 hour days. The way wealth is distributed it is a challenge to become wealthy in excess, it is a form of dominance the wealthy have over the middle class.

As far as your finale argument about augmented egos I don't fully understand, ego's can not be augmented. It refers merely to your interpretation, you can express that but it can't be measured or simplified past how you feel about someone. Their is also no such thing as an innocent bi-stander, I don't see how it fits into the equation at all.