Roger Erickson — Evolutionary scientist looks at employment and social structure

Roger Erickson Says [at moslereconomics.com]:
April 9th, 2012 at 8:48 am

the Upper Looting Class doesn’t want staff, they want serfs

see: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-09/worker-shortage-dogs-trail-king-as-s-d-jobs-go-begging.html

this is all about disparity; we’ll see if “flat” population structure outdoes class-segregated populations; they always have in the past; 

so far, the path to fastest adaptive rate has been to maximize flexibility/agility/diversity in the smallest population (i.e., no class barriers);

having less agile lower-classes on hand looks convenient one day, but is a non-scalable burden the next day;

in any adaptive race, you’ll see a large spectrum of options tried, but the weight of model-species evidence indicates that there’s a sweet spot with tolerance limits:

“species able to increase group agility (aka diversity/flexibility) while controlling the inter-dependency-costs that come with population size … inevitably outdo competitors”

that’s basically why eukaryotes outdo prokaryotes, (diploid vs haploid)

& why social species outdo solitary species (diverse teams able to rapidly combine team-behaviors greater than the sum of visible member properties)

& why democracies outdo monarchies/aristocracies;

& why “flat” organizations outdo hierarchical ones.

It’s odd to see a conservative political movement develop in parallel to the “flat” organizational structure of industries like Intel (not to mention within our supposed Democracy). It’s as though business & public purpose have temporarily separated, and must re-connect.