The Hill Times
LONDON, U.K.—If all that mattered was economic growth, then Sheikh Hasina would still be in power. She has ruled Bangladesh for 15 continuous years during which the country’s per capita income more than tripled. Yet she has been overthrown by the very same students who stood to benefit most from her remarkable economic achievements. They were the ones who didn’t have jobs yet, of course.
They have strongly graded hierarchies like those in our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. There is a boss who rules by force and by fear but also by making alliances, and there is constant turmoil as other would-be bosses rise and fall. Any diligent reader can find exceptions to all the above statements, but by and large that is the primate condition. It was presumably once the human condition too—but all the ancestral human groups we know about lived in absolute equality.
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