"And all of this entire system is not based on fair division of mutual gains from moving to coordinated arrangements that make everyone better off, it is at least partially enforced at every level by threats that wouldn't counterfactually be made except for the threatened agent's predicted tendency to give in to threats, meaning everybody at every level of the structure has various reasons not to like the current arrangement and to find it easy to imagine how they could do better, but they're terrible at coordinating and have high friction costs and expected destructive losses from trying to change anything because lots of the destructive threats would start firing, to the point where it's proverbial that everybody overestimates the gains and underestimates the losses from trying to change anything and people shouldn't even talk about trying that."

"And all of this entire system is not based on fair division of mutual gains from moving to coordinated arrangements that make everyone better off; it is at least partially enforced at every level by threats that wouldn't counterfactually be made except for the threatened agent's predicted tendency to give in to threats, meaning everybody at every level of the structure has various reasons not to like the current arrangement and to find it easy to imagine how they could do better, but they're terrible at coordinating and have high friction costs and expected destructive losses from trying to change anything because lots of the destructive threats would start firing, to the point where it's proverbial that everybody overestimates the gains and underestimates the losses from trying to change anything and people shouldn't even talk about trying that."

"And all of this entire system is not based on fair division of mutual gains from moving to coordinated arrangements that make everyone better off; it is at least partially enforced at every level by threats that wouldn't counterfactually be made except for the threatened agent's predicted tendency to give in to threats; meaning everybody at every level of the structure has various reasons not to like the current arrangement and to find it easy to imagine how they could do better; but they're terrible at coordinating and have high friction costs and expected destructive losses from trying to change anything because lots of the destructive threats would start firing; to the point where it's proverbial that everybody overestimates the gains and underestimates the losses from trying to change anything and people shouldn't even talk about trying that."