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Management (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Economic Benefits of the Spear Technology

It seems like human beings just naturally organize themselves into these weird hierarchies, like the management thing, right? And that sort of like the more of them you get together, the more pressure there is toward this hierarchical structure where everyone's always wanting to move up in the structure. So if we're thinking about technological improvements to like they're knowing what so-and-so's wife's grievance against him is or something, I mean, maybe that somehow, I agree with you. But it does seem like it's more feasible to judge whether something's overall productivity game at that local level.

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