> how do you think people survived and thrived for the other 248000 years? In small tribes, where everyone knew everyone intimately because they lived together

> how do you think people survived and thrived for the other 248000 years? In small tribes, where everyone knew everyone intimately because they lived together, and everything was managed by feels. Things like rules, laws, money, banking, hierarchies, well-defined private vs. public ownership, are all things that came with scale, because interpersonal relationships fail to keep group cohesion once it reaches more than ~100 people.