
Episode 2: Complex Society
Breaking Down: Collapse
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How to Be More Efficient in the Business World
In a simple society, it was expected that the leader of the family would sacrifice himself to make sure everyone was taken care of. But as you grow and you become more complex, inequality inevitably sets in. You start to get a disparity between the wealth at the top and the poverty at the bottom. Once you've got people specializing in things, you have to have an organization that allows you to control it. And this is huge too for complex societies. If there's trade happening, then there needs to be laws around that trade and punishment for disobeying those laws. So we see, like in egypt, the the pyramids. Those were not things ta you could do in a
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