> Can't authority be established through work history? No. We're still (relatively primitive) animals: we have plenty of well-documented "vulns" and internal b

> Can't authority be established through work history? No. We're still (relatively primitive) animals: we have plenty of well-documented "vulns" and internal biases that affect our decision-making and opinion-forming abilities - and these come from both actual-instinctive habits (like how we're generally predisposed to be biased towards selecting tall people as leaders or for promotion) and learned biases from our cultural upbringing (e.g. racism in the southern US).