> I've always felt that hierarchical, subservient thinking is strange It is deeply weird: it is perfectly reasonable to lead/be led without believing that the

> I've always felt that hierarchical, subservient thinking is strange It is deeply weird: it is perfectly reasonable to lead/be led without believing that the leader is somehow better. > These are all written by people whose minds have been thoroughly corporatized, true believers in the hierarchy with an inner need to justify it. This sounds very teenage edgelord, but I really think a majority of the population acts as if a primary motivator for them is outsourcing as much risk/hard things as allowable. To do so entails buying into false/constructed realities to justify their own passivity. Thus, job titles attain a status of Real Enough, because everyone’s play acting that they’re real, and that bootstraps them into actual reality. Collective result of sunk costs by the faithful.