The Relationship Between Hierarchy and Competence

People are happier at work more satisfied and less anxious when they're in a functional hierarchy where the lines of authority are clearly delineated. Conservative types tend to be more supportive of the idea of solidity of borders while liberal lefters think no we want to make the borders permeable because we want a free flow of goods and ideas. There's real utility in that especially if you're locked in a problem that you cannot solve you need to disintegrate your categorical structures and restructure them so that you can get yourself out of being stuck and move forward. The right wing tends to associated with this idea of maintaining categorical system is working pretty damn well, he says.