Why will individuals obey rules without governance, if people "suck" (<– bad political philosophy) and are sociopathic (yes, about 6%)? Some people will aways break all the rules if they think it benefits them.
It is a game theoretic problem: if players get more food in the short run by armed robbery than by working the fields, then the fields will lie fallow. The solution is to increase the cost of armed robbery by protecting the farmers with a standing army or a nuke.
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The standing army is either formed once the armed robbers consolidate their spheres of influence and begin farming their famers, or once the farmers get together and pay for a militia and magistrates to fight off invaders. The result is pretty much the same.
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I've been digging at this lately. There are some interesting real world examples of this phenomena playing out. Szabos has examples, but I've been looking for more. I suspect phenomena happens in roving driver ants + affects their hive structure over time.https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/499314284413722624 …
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