• @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    I never implied a necessary return to subsistence farming. I said that hierarchy is not necessary for society to exist, but you continue to equate the two.

    Mayans didn’t build highways, because the technology and the necessity were not present. But they did build roads. And bridges. And pressurized aqueducts. And they did it without an “Assistant Director of Construction.”

    Y’know. Infrastructure. With limited hierarchy.

    Saying that human civilization and the necessary infrastructure to support it is impossible without traditional corporate hierarchy isn’t just wrong, it’s fucking propaganda. And it’s propaganda designed specifically to depress the value of labor.

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      Mayans did build highways, made of elevated dirt, to connect their cities. We just discovered them via LiDAR

      https://mymodernmet.com/lidar-radar-discovers-mayan-civilization/

      It’s so adorable that you suggest the fucking Mayans had “limited hierarchy.” Maybe the funniest hot take I’ve read today, and today has been a doozy.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        My dude, if you can only imagine one system of social organization as being correct or successful, I don’t think it’s my intellect you need to concern yourself with.

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          I exist in the real world, and thus am aware of many types of social organization that currently exist.

          All of them with any substantial amount of people are hierarchal.

          As an example the Mayans had both “Divine kings” and a well established system of patronage within their city-states.

          Frankly, your assumptions about Mayan culture are pretty racist.