Según Robin Hanson, queremos que nos proporcione algo más que paz y prosperidad, a saber:
1. governments with forms like those of recent high status regimes,
2. to be part of large rich powerful empires, since those are high status,
3. democracy over autarchy, as it gives us more illusion of control,
4. proportional representation, as we then more control who represents us,
5. equal votes per person, as otherwise others have more votes than us,
6. states controlled by groups we identify with, so we seem in control,
7. stigma attached to assistance given groups we don’t identify with,
8. more regulation of competing high status folks, to bring them down to us,
9. more support of affiliated high status folks, to lift us as they rise, and
10. laws that treat them but not us like children, as that degrades folks.
