A million humans cannot cooperate based on personal acquaintance alone because you can't know a million people, so humans build bureaucratic systems like legal systems, financial systems, churches, states, and universities to enable large-scale cooperation among strangers.
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Yuval Noah HarariEvidence Quote
“you can't know a million people. So, how do a million people cooperate? usually by building a bureaucratic system like a legal system or the financial system or churches or states or universities.”
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