it seems pretty much the same setup as a pirate ship, right? (sailors get a share of the proceeds, captain gets a higher-than-average share)
What are you picturing as the typical example of "consumption" (which are not used up in a civilization and which women use much less of than men). My prototypical example of "consumption" is food, which is used up, and which women and men eat in roughly similar quantities.
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I guess it changes (and the differentials on who can consume how much therefore change) depending on the level of scarcity. If workers are consuming enough food to work, how is the king going to consume 10X as much food? But there's limited capacity to make babies.
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I guess you can put some multiple of work into making sure the king has *pure* or high-quality food, but that's not really a reward that scales with his administrative competence, that's a risk-reduction measure to reduce dynastic uncertainty.
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