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there is a lot of clanish behavior that is somehow innate and can be exploited. there is also an enormous cultural ability to rationalize and justify the "natur
by college_physics 4y ago
there is a lot of clanish behavior that is somehow innate and can be exploited. there is also an enormous cultural ability to rationalize and justify the "naturalness" of a multi-class society. further, people are born with a spectrum of abilities and character traits that facilitates segmentation.
without oversimplifying though the complex interplay of these and other factors (e.g. the degree to which technology can diminish the need for subjugated human labor) the point is that no human likes to be considered a subhuman. Hence the construct is predicated on social machinations and its persistence, at least at scale, is always precarious.