If you buy in to Yuval Noah Harari's narrative than the limiting factor has been and is flexible cooperation within group, at scale. It is what out highly dev

If you buy in to Yuval Noah Harari's narrative than the limiting factor has been and is flexible cooperation within group, at scale. It is what out highly developed sences of politics and religion are for. Its what money is for, caste systems, popes, grand admirals, corporations and premium fashion brands. In any case... a lot of traditional "bullshit jobs" are about. Middle management. Lawyering, reporting, coordinating, administrating, bureaucratic procedure management....etc. Maybe we should think of these as extremely inefficient ways of solving that neverending "problem" of flexible cooperation in large groups. Even though the low hanging fruit is gone and the marginal efforts are extremely inefficient... throwing resources at bottleneck is ... to be expected. Just a thought. Not sure that I'm convinced myself. I think it might explain the chair rule though.