It doesn’t make the assumptions you made in your original comment, that elites are necessary or that they can be integrated by making society more complex without increasing the relative resources available for them
Elite positions are as necessary as the stability of the social systems under which they’re necessitated. If your argument is that elites are unnecessary then you’d need to explain a viable socio-political model where they do not exist.
We can argue about the elite efficiency, e.g. minimizing to necessary elites. However even the USSR, China, Makhnovshchina, and ELZN have elites. So it’s not like they’re going to go away without a new radical socio-technology that does not exist.
As far as the complexity argument, that’s literally the path that many societies had effectively chosen to stave off elite overproduction issues from coming to a boil. Tsarist Russia for example arguably ran a century and a half by doing makework bullshit for elites (see the linked blog). I never argued that it effectively solved the root causes of elite overproduction simply that it was a solution.
The arguments here can easily be applied to “Pol Pot”, which again is also not something I am advocating, but something I am enumerating.
They are necessary for the model because the model, models class societies, there is no therm in the model were w, or N increase as a function of E. So no, the model does not model the elites as offering any benefit to either wages or the overall population of humans, their role is entirely parasitic, as in they extract value, and cause instability.
Im talking entirely from a modeling perspective. The model does not make any assumptions on the usefulness of elites, but there is a term that is effectively a predators fictional response in eq 11. And a coefficient that serves to model an inverse effect in eq 1. In the modeling paradigm, the elite class is either parasitic or not useful depending of those terms, it is never implied they serve a function. Likewise their conflict has material origins se the explanation I quoted, there are no terms to model structure other than the initial class division.
Elite positions are as necessary as the stability of the social systems under which they’re necessitated. If your argument is that elites are unnecessary then you’d need to explain a viable socio-political model where they do not exist.
We can argue about the elite efficiency, e.g. minimizing to necessary elites. However even the USSR, China, Makhnovshchina, and ELZN have elites. So it’s not like they’re going to go away without a new radical socio-technology that does not exist.
As far as the complexity argument, that’s literally the path that many societies had effectively chosen to stave off elite overproduction issues from coming to a boil. Tsarist Russia for example arguably ran a century and a half by doing makework bullshit for elites (see the linked blog). I never argued that it effectively solved the root causes of elite overproduction simply that it was a solution.
The arguments here can easily be applied to “Pol Pot”, which again is also not something I am advocating, but something I am enumerating.
They are necessary for the model because the model, models class societies, there is no therm in the model were w, or N increase as a function of E. So no, the model does not model the elites as offering any benefit to either wages or the overall population of humans, their role is entirely parasitic, as in they extract value, and cause instability.
Ideologically I agree that we need to transcend social organizations that stratify power.
Practically speaking framing it around a parasitic lens is ideologically pointless because socialist societies also tend to have this problem.
Im talking entirely from a modeling perspective. The model does not make any assumptions on the usefulness of elites, but there is a term that is effectively a predators fictional response in eq 11. And a coefficient that serves to model an inverse effect in eq 1. In the modeling paradigm, the elite class is either parasitic or not useful depending of those terms, it is never implied they serve a function. Likewise their conflict has material origins se the explanation I quoted, there are no terms to model structure other than the initial class division.