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by JumpCrisscross 679 days ago
> not everyone needs to be in a group

Not everyone is in a civilisation. Few people in a civilisation would rather be in e.g. Sudan or Ethiopia.

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Right but I don't need to successfully get along with everyone else in the US for the US to be a successful country.

Lower the sizes of groups and increase async communication, and the burden/overhead of management goes down. Groups small enough can manage themselves, in fact.

there's over 170mil people in those 2 countries. maybe a majority wishes buy a one-way ticket to Disneyland but a non-irrelevant numbers of people decides to live their dreams and struggles with those nearby in that group. again: not everyone needs to be ANY given group
Most people in those countries are part of small groups. Humans are a social species. That doesn’t require anyone to be part of a group. But it’s a bit ridiculous to try and manage a society by assuming it away.