[narrator]

With a dictatorship it really depends on the competence of the leadership. This is not a robust strategy for organizing human civilizations.

[jack9]

Really? Because stable singular hierarchies is exactly how we evolved to have civilization.

[disgruntledphd2]

Not sure if I would agree, given that estimates suggest that homo sapiens had evolved approx 400k years ago, and most of recorded history (with the somewhat stable hierarchies) lasts, at most, 20k years. So potentially much of recorded history, but certainly not proven to be necessary for evolution.