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magnora ago

True. They are all extremely greedy and selfish, which is both their collective strength and their collective weakness, in that it creates an inability to cooperate unless it results in profit or power gains. Very transparent and one-dimensional. Also very predictable. They're always backstabing at the drop of a hat in the end, which makes the hierarchy like the pile of sand at the bottom of the hourglass, it's always changing and getting shuffled around as it grows, but it's still actually there despite the volatility.

Changing the culture in exactly the right direction removes the hierarchy, just as scooping out the base of the sand pyramid will cause it to fall flat