I think this makes a lot of sense, and it points out that even people who write about status hierarchies don’t REALLY take it seriously that it’s one of the top motivations for most humans.
If status and dominance hierarchies are the only known way to make most humans (say, 70% of the intrinsic-extrensic motivation spectrum) actually cooperate, and there is an economy to scale of setting up and maintaining a hierarchy, then the current world of large organizations is pretty easy to understand.
Like, in a world where the median person is John Wentworth (“Wentworld”), I’m pretty sure there just aren’t large organizations of the sort our world has.
Yeah, Dagonworld is pretty dysfunctional—the garbage doesn’t get collected, customers get yelled at when they call with a complaint, shelves get restocked rather randomly, etc.
I think this makes a lot of sense, and it points out that even people who write about status hierarchies don’t REALLY take it seriously that it’s one of the top motivations for most humans.
If status and dominance hierarchies are the only known way to make most humans (say, 70% of the intrinsic-extrensic motivation spectrum) actually cooperate, and there is an economy to scale of setting up and maintaining a hierarchy, then the current world of large organizations is pretty easy to understand.
Yeah, Dagonworld is pretty dysfunctional—the garbage doesn’t get collected, customers get yelled at when they call with a complaint, shelves get restocked rather randomly, etc.