How would we act if you're unarmed and I had a gun pointed at you? We are all marketers, trying to achieve our goals - no matter how trivial. Hence, we negotia

How would we act if you're unarmed and I had a gun pointed at you? We are all marketers, trying to achieve our goals - no matter how trivial. Hence, we negotiate, flatter, smile even when we don't want to, try to know what makes the other person tick. Problem is this method's slow, expensive and inefficient (like American democracy). BUT, when a person can compel action, things change. The brain takes the easy, direct but less creative approach. Authorities become uncaring because they don't need to. Problem is this method is efficient and cheap like Chinese dictatorship. I guess this topic becomes easier to reason out if it becomes a dictatorship vs democracy, free market vs monopolies, and inbreeding vs diversity of ideas debate.