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I hear this claim a fair bit, admittedly often in communist spaces.

It is said that any group of people bigger than 50-200 people "requires" hierarchy.

I'm not sure about that.

What do anarchists make of this?

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[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Why is hierarchy inefficient, in your view?

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Those at the top of hierarchies are often there because they are good at gaining more power. Not because they are skilled or anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

Why is it efficient? Do you actually have a case?

Because like... I've ~~been~~ looked outside recently.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Short version; processing bottlenecks and latency, variety of perspectives not utilized, single points of failure, organizational brittleness. Medium compressed version? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4777587

I'm not interested in debating this with an illiterate peddling orthodox folk knowledge.

Its also morally wrong in most cases, but lets not pretend anyone whos not already a freak of some sort has ever given a single fuck about that. Coercion, alienation at every part of the hierarchy, people being sacrificed for bullshit they dont believe in, all that-but if you hadn't considered that you already know you're a bastard.