Yes humans are better at dealing with groups of size 7 and 50, but I don’t think that has much to do with your complaint. You are basically noticing that you would probably be the alpha male in a tribe of 50, ruling all you surveyed, and wouldn’t that be cool. Or in a world of 5000 people you’d be one of the top 100, and everyone would know your name, and wouldn’t that be cool. Even we had better ingrown tools for dealing with larger social groups, you’d still have to face the fact that as a small creature in a vast social world, most such creatures can’t expect to be very widely known or influential.
Yes humans are better at dealing with groups of size 7 and 50, but I don’t think that has much to do with your complaint. You are basically noticing that you would probably be the alpha male in a tribe of 50, ruling all you surveyed, and wouldn’t that be cool. Or in a world of 5000 people you’d be one of the top 100, and everyone would know your name, and wouldn’t that be cool. Even we had better ingrown tools for dealing with larger social groups, you’d still have to face the fact that as a small creature in a vast social world, most such creatures can’t expect to be very widely known or influential.