The Losing Battle Between Obsolete Governments and Technology
Throughout most of human history there has been a divide between the wealthy and the poor, the elite and the lower class, those who lead and those who follow.
This seemed an inevitable continuation of our ape-ancestor’s proclivity towards hierarchies, an evolutionarily-hardwired behavior driven by our nervous systems and the neurotransmitters in our brains that determined which males and females were the “alphas” — which got first dibs at dinner and which got the best mates for reproduction.
Humanity’s bodies and brains were shaped by this basic principle of survival of the fittest: let the animals battle it out, and to the victor goes the right to pass on their genes. So naturally, over time, those who were the best at climbing the hierarchy, those whose neurology was capable of navigating a centralized system of status and rank, passed this inherent instinct to their children.
Over and over until the earth beget humans.
Modern Hierarchies
Unsurprisingly, as the young species we are, we are still operating on this system. Without enough time for our biology to evolve out of this practice, our governments and corporations and organizations of all kinds still fall into this same hierarchy formed in the jungle by ancestors.
