Isn’t it kind of true that the systems we as servile people-pleasers have to operate out of are exactly these? The hierarchical status games and alpha-animal tribal dynamics are these. Our leaders who are so might and rich and powerful want to keep their position, and we don’t want to admit they have more influence than we do for things like AI now and so we stand and watch naively as they reward the people pleasers and eventually historically we learn(ed) it pays to please until leadership changes.