Is the implication that as societies scale they become unsustainable because humans, with their mimetic tendencies, copy behaviors more often of the lucky than the skillful? It doesn’t seem to be that way in practice. It seems few people copy the people who’ve had the greatest
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They're definitely extremely skilled. The scoreboard of solid companies is filled with skilled people (
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But the masses don't know Bezos and don't copy Bezos.
The participants to the scoreboard used by most people to determine who to copy are mostly there by luck.
Do you mean the subset of people available to most people to copy is determined by luck or the rich uncle that one copies got his riches from luck?
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I meant the former. But I definitely have to think more on this.
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The intuition I had (far from proven, just an hypothesis) was that “imitating the behavior of those on top of my mind”, *all other things equal*, tends to be a riskier strategy in a metropolis than in a village.
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