>>507891299>what you are saying is only true for economies/societies at scale. at a small enough scaleAbsolutely. This stuff is basically the "thermodynamics" of societies. Programming, engineering etc all have proverbs that go something like
>basically everything is valid at small scalesand societies are similar. You can make pretty much any system work at the level of a household, family, village etc, but once you start having societies with billions of people all interacting with each other nature basically picks the system for you regardless of the intentions of those who fancy themselves as social engineers.
A lot of this just comes down to entropy and scaling laws.
2 individuals = 1 relationship.
3 individuals = 3 relationships.
4 individuals = 6 relationships.
...
1000 individuals = 499500 relationships.
It's easier for small groups to regulate themselves because the ratio between the number of individuals and the number of relationships is greater. More individuals = more workers. More relationships = more work since the goal is to ensure that every relationships is healthy. The work required to ensure that every relationship is healthy scales faster than the number of workers, so large societies tend to collapse under their own weight and you just end up with "capitalism" regardless of what the society is supposed to be on paper.