There are only big taxers, big traders, supermemes, occasional individuals of great power; and a few other organizations, like Science, that can fasten parasitically onto them.
I agree with your general point about funding Science.
I agree with your general point about there being more potentially beneficial
large scale institutions than actually exist.
I think that there are a small handful of additional types of large organizations
which do manage to exist in addition to the types you’ve listed:
coordinated buying clubs (not quite the same as big traders)
member-supported testing labs (consumer reports and underwriters’ laboratories)
unions
universities
armies
(religious organizations are perhaps the same as supermemes—yet they also
have organizational structures that are somewhat separate from the memes themselves)
Each of these is beyond the 50 person ancestral limit.
I agree with your general point about funding Science. I agree with your general point about there being more potentially beneficial large scale institutions than actually exist.
I think that there are a small handful of additional types of large organizations which do manage to exist in addition to the types you’ve listed:
coordinated buying clubs (not quite the same as big traders)
member-supported testing labs (consumer reports and underwriters’ laboratories)
unions
universities
armies
(religious organizations are perhaps the same as supermemes—yet they also have organizational structures that are somewhat separate from the memes themselves)
Each of these is beyond the 50 person ancestral limit.