Right, Thanks for the pointer to Mancur Olson's book; I didn't know of this. I have read about this in Robert Axelrod's The Evolution/Complexity of Cooperation

Right, Thanks for the pointer to Mancur Olson's book; I didn't know of this. I have read about this in Robert Axelrod's The Evolution/Complexity of Cooperation books where you can beat the "optimal" strategy by cheating (i.e. forming vested groups) as above. Nassim Taleb also talks about this in his books - https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... It is also why i don't think we can have a True Democracy but only various shades of Oligarchies masquerading as Democracies.