The Unreachable Few
Every hunter-gatherer society on record developed the same ritual: when a skilled hunter returned with an exceptional kill, the tribe mocked him into equality. It was social technology - a mechanism for preventing any individual from accumulating enough power to threaten the group. That mechanism is now broken. The most powerful people on earth are more visible than any elite in history and more physically unreachable than any elite in history. This essay traces what happens when the ancient correction system keeps running but its target has long left the room.
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