If you’re either in the middle or the bottom quintiles, you can criticize your t

If you’re either in the middle or the bottom quintiles, you can criticize your tribe’s elites when you’re in the majority, in order to increase your ‘take’.

But if you’re not in the majority, your tribal elites cannot get you material perks, opportunity perks, or status perks.

If you abandon your tribal elites, then you will be at the mercy of other tribe’s elites.

One should not confuse the charity that your elites grant to subordinate groups in the assumption that other groups will grant you charity.

There isn’t any evidence of that.

Instead your elites gain power and status by giving away what is not theirs.