chieftain

In communities like this, we just need a chieftain to handle our disputes fairly and keep us all from going nuts every so often.

Land "ownership" started at the ability to defend land, which was usually the job of the chieftain or king or alpha male.

Now they have some chieftain try to change the conversation into "Tell me what you loved about Reader", under the guise that they will use your comment to help make better products.

Even the most barbarian, uncivilized tribes have had a shaman or chieftain and a set of principles to follow and taboos to avoid.

It's time to cut out the act of consumption and skip right to destroying goods as a show of power:> "In the potlatch, the host in effect challenged a guest chieftain to exceed him in his 'power' to give away or to destroy goods.

Wearing national costume in such contexts can proclaim national pride, or just extremely high status which allows the wearer to defy convention.---Indeed, maybe that's what's happening here: the corporate chieftain showing his power among those in the room.

You think the village chieftain of a 300 person village back when humans first discovered agriculture was capable of "understanding" the entire system required to simply feed his village on a daily basis?This all seems like pandering to identity-driven, individualistic cultural trends rather than any actual analysis of humans or society or complexity in the world.

And no, the guy behind the counter at the 7-11 is probably not a statelike actor....Although, I just thought, if someone running a little shop was also an earl, or some tribal chieftain, and they considered their little shop to be their final outpost of conquered land, then there might be argument to be made that monies paid to them while in their fiefdom could be construed as some form of taxation.