THE PROBLEM OF SCALE by Joel Davis on William Butchman To generate a social orde

THE PROBLEM OF SCALE

by Joel Davis on William Butchman

To generate a social order from a rule of ethics requires both hierarchical construction (politics) and the calculation of utility distribution (law), and these are both subject to economies of scale.

As your hierarchy grows in size it must incorporate a greater scope of cultural differences to facilitate successful negotiation between each, therefore creating greater concessions and therefore giving each citizen less of what they individually want, reducing reciprocity between the state and the citizen, while at the same time the capacity to accurately calculate reciprocity is diminished due to requiring divergent formulas to accommodate these cultural differences.