“Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.”
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.