> status hierarchies are one of the few things that are common to every human civilization Supposedly hunter-gatherer societies are fairly non-heirarchical (hu

> status hierarchies are one of the few things that are common to every human civilization Supposedly hunter-gatherer societies are fairly non-heirarchical (hunter-gatherer bands not tribal farmer/herders). They use humor to take down anyone who tries to be to bossy, let children and everyone else do what they like, but also strongly value sharing. Peter Gray at Boston College has written a lot about this, for instance: https://libcom.org/history/how-hunter-gatherers-maintained-their-egalitarian-ways-peter-gray https://libcom.org/history/how-hunter-gatherers-maintained-t...