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— Harold Leavitt"We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth."
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The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.
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