[smitty1e]

People don't scale. This is graphically implied in Maslow's Hierarchy[1], shown as a pyramid.

The area of the abstractions occurring up the individual's pyramid is dwarfed by the area of the base needs.

The more people you consider, the more the basic needs for e.g. food and shelter dominate.

Finely nuanced abstractions about rights and aesthetics? Don't waste your breath on more than the substet of the population whose heads linger around the top of the pyramid.

Someone else who understood this non-scalability point was Gustav Le Bon[2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Po...

[ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7]

> People don't scale

There are 8.2 billion of them, so I think they scale just fine.

[smitty1e]

8.2n individuals, sure.

But look how hard it is to wage peace in the Ukraine...

[ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7]

I understand your point, but it seems a lot better than some other scenarios throughout human history. Also, there are way more humans now than at those points.

Also, I am not sure how accurate this, but maybe something worth taking into consideration:

https://theconversation.com/its-ukraine-not-the-ukraine-here...