> I just don’t think it’s a realistic expectation to expect this at the global scale.
This is exactly my point. We dont have the biology for it - mammals don’t have eusocial traits because we’re too complex and egocentric, to the extent that game theoretic defections are individually risky but can have individual benefits.
A group of soldier ants can’t start their own colony because they physically cannot reproduce without a heirarchical queen because they are effectively sterile.
Dunbar number limits the possible social interactions at the depth you describe to 150-250 people at the most. That’s your tribal limit and it’s seen in extant hunter gatherer groups as you describe
While your ideas are valid about global labor cooperation, ultimately it’s stymied by the limitations of the cerebellum size, and you’re back to where you started.
Note that we already tried the hunter gatherer thing for about 250ky and it got overrun by transacional colonialism.
If you want to read my theory work on this here are some resources - note though it’s a lot of reading:
