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10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Ingredients of Dominance Harkey

In any given situation, if you want to understand why there's a dominance hirake, then your task is just a matter of figuring out what the circumstances are which establish these two criteria. In capitalism, that will usually be a factor of market conditions. Why do some people get paid really well at their jobs and have decent working conditions? While other people get paid barely enough not to die and they have humiliating, miserable working conditions? So those are the critera that give you hierarchy. You also want to pay attention to the specific conditions in order to understand the degree of dominance that people in power get to exert.

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