The iron law of collective action is that it doesn't really work for large, dispersed groups. Collective action is how the old-boy-network perpetuates itself i

The iron law of collective action is that it doesn't really work for large, dispersed groups. Collective action is how the old-boy-network perpetuates itself in the first place; you can try to raise the scale of feasible coordination so as to increase its social benefits, but it's a very hard problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action