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650: Brian Klaas | The Corruptible Influence of Power

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Why Do We Need a Hierarchy?

In the book, you discuss some of these old humiliation rituals for hunting and like, unter gatherer societies. And you note that humans spent 95 % plus of our history in a flat hierarchy. So why do we need a hierarchy? Then, obviously, in larger numbers of people, this starts to become important. The two main hypotheses about why this change are either warfare or agriculture.

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