Biologist Robert Sapolsky's work with baboons shows how top-down government can produce stress, and that we might be a lot happier in a system that's not run by a bunch of alpha males (e.g. ministers) obsessed with control, and who derive perks (status, etc) from their position in a hierarchy.

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