There are different kinds of leaders based on the culture. authoritarian leaders exist through domination and fear.
Non authoritarian cultures promote leaders out of respect. They exist because they respect others.
egalitarian leaders are persecuted in authoritarian society as a threat to authoritarian domination.
When the concept of cultural evolution began it was used as a way to justify the current order of market economies and capitalism, which has grown through colonization, subjugation, and assimilation of cultures around the world in the conquest of people and resources.
“There is something terribly wrong with this country“ - V
We’ve had corporations controlling our government for over a century. and wealthy landowners before that. kings and nobles, emperors, priests... it seems anyone with any sort of power has tried to dominate the rest of society