Scott Adams

And as they interfaced with each other.

And then he started noticing a pecking order.

And that pecking order would be some males would refuse to leave their lair and would have other mice bring food back for them.

you know, throughout the day, very much like, yeah, DoorDash, right?

And very much like the decline of the Greco empire in Greece and Roman empire to some degree.

That started to really become very profound.

Ultimately in the town square, there would become more and more violent interactions and other mice would watch it almost like a gladiator type of situation.

Mice would be cut up.

They would have scars.

Other mice would join.

There would be packs that form.

But the ones that were not interacting, he called them, Calhoun called them the beautiful ones, primarily male.

And in fact, I think all of them were male.

There was one female, but they got knocked out when you actually read the research paper.

And it's interesting that this structure manifested pretty much early on in the experiment.

But it got worse.

As this situation developed, you started seeing...

more and more of the population become more fixated on the tribalism that took place in the town square and taking care of the beautiful ones the rich ones the ones that had everything that knew everything there's less reproduction

There was less care for each other in a sense that there was less grooming.

There was even less eating of the food.