Really, the vast majority of human activity remains organized under heavily hierarchical, authoritarian command economies—since that's how nearly all companies

Really, the vast majority of human activity remains organized under heavily hierarchical, authoritarian command economies—since that's how nearly all companies work. We're fortunate to live in a seemingly-unusual time when maybe 1/3 of the world's population lives under semi-functional, more-or-less liberal democratic states that claim higher authority than those companies and do an OK job of slightly moderating the ability of the rich to dominate everyone else, but still. The world's very much mostly not democratic, even today, and even in democracies little mini-oligarchies/dictatorships dominate much of our life.