Dunbar’s number needs to be retired as a concept. It’s turned into a meaningless trope under conditions of modernity. It’s not a meaningful social scaling breakpoint for anything in practice, and hasn’t been since the invention of agriculture and archetype based storytelling.
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150 made men in most mafias, last I checked. Anecdotally, go much over, get a lot of turncoats.
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Dunbar’s number refers to how many other minds you can model not group size per se. Unless all made men only know w the other made men personally and nobody else, it’s not an example.
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For sure, and I think you would. Every made man has the "red button" effectively (i.e. FBI informant). Although maybe should be tracking one's enemies as well.
I only noticed it anecdotally, while researching mob's, some years back. "Associates" seemed ~2000, kinda Dunbar.
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