Dr. Nicholas Wright
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 6 Feb
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And so another source of power for us that leaders can have is through prestige.
So prestige is when you have qualities that will be thought admirable by others.
And so people can have prestige.
So I, for example, when I was a doctor working in the hospital, there were other doctors who were more senior than me, and they had a huge amount of prestige.
And so I valued their opinion.
I followed them because they had a huge amount of prestige.
And we see others who have prestige in societies.
So, for example, religious leaders will often have a large amount of prestige within society.
And that prestige is another source of power.
And so one of the traditional sources of prestige in very many societies is monarchy.
And so if you look, for example, today, of the G7 countries, that's sort of the biggest rich world economies, three of the seven G7 countries are monarchies.
If you look at countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, they're monarchies.
If you look at many of the most successful countries in the Middle East, they are monarchies.
Oman, Jordan have been much more stable than others.
And if you're in Iran, for example, you're looking at UAE, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia.
They have been much more successful.
And one of the reasons for that is that they have a much more stable society because they have this clear leadership at the top.
Now, that doesn't necessarily mean the leader is going to be benign.
It doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be democratic.
But we as humans will often try and coordinate around such individual human leaders.
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