Excellent summary! BTW, you had previously asked me what I meant by saying that "coordination" is a major field or dimension of progress. To use this article as an example, I would frame the situation in part that agrarian societies had major difficulties with "Coordination". Elite exploitation, external exploitation (Mongols, other kingdoms, etc), cartels, etc are coordination and cooperation failures (with cooperation a subset of coordination)
We are not capable of progress if we are struggling against each other in strongly zero sum ways, and we can’t innovate fast enough and create wealth if we don’t coordinate well.
Excellent summary! BTW, you had previously asked me what I meant by saying that "coordination" is a major field or dimension of progress. To use this article as an example, I would frame the situation in part that agrarian societies had major difficulties with "Coordination". Elite exploitation, external exploitation (Mongols, other kingdoms, etc), cartels, etc are coordination and cooperation failures (with cooperation a subset of coordination)
We are not capable of progress if we are struggling against each other in strongly zero sum ways, and we can’t innovate fast enough and create wealth if we don’t coordinate well.