• Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 小时前

        Your thinking of written history, almost all of which was written by slavers and lords to justify them doing nothing and getting all the stuff.

        The vast majority of human existence, from when we first diverged from apes until the agricultural revolutions, was organized around anarchic tribes and clans where they shared there resources and the leader “ruled” at the discretion of the tribe.

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          52 分钟前

          These were not benign, cooperative social structures. They were tiny dictatorships. The leader controlled the “discretion of the tribe” by eliminating dissent. The controlling principle of was “might makes right”.

          Other words for the broad concept you are describing are “harem” and “cult”.