I hear this claim a fair bit, admittedly often in communist spaces.
It is said that any group of people bigger than 50-200 people “requires” hierarchy.
I’m not sure about that.
What do anarchists make of this?
I hear this claim a fair bit, admittedly often in communist spaces.
It is said that any group of people bigger than 50-200 people “requires” hierarchy.
I’m not sure about that.
What do anarchists make of this?
This has in fact been studied. There is in fact math.
Hierarchy is not necessary, it is wildly inefficient even when those involve enthusiastically consent, and most if the evidence in favor rests heavily on fallacies and masturbatory self justification.
Why is hierarchy inefficient, in your view?
Those at the top of hierarchies are often there because they are good at gaining more power. Not because they are skilled or anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
One could argue that’s a skill in itself, but I get what you mean.
Why is it efficient? Do you actually have a case?
Because like… I’ve
beenlooked outside recently.Short version; processing bottlenecks and latency, variety of perspectives not utilized, single points of failure, organizational brittleness. Medium compressed version? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4777587
I’m not interested in debating this with an illiterate peddling orthodox folk knowledge.
Its also morally wrong in most cases, but lets not pretend anyone whos not already a freak of some sort has ever given a single fuck about that. Coercion, alienation at every part of the hierarchy, people being sacrificed for bullshit they dont believe in, all that-but if you hadn’t considered that you already know you’re a bastard.