Prehistory:
The cornestone:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/>
Read this after gervais principle:
https://samzdat.com/the-uruk-series/
Then read all the articles in this series:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yivoFJE5e9HRyjXQW/mazes-sequence-summary
Then read this:
http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/there-is-a-war/
then this after moral mazes sequence and there is a war:
https://danco.substack.com/p/the-michael-scott-theory-of-social
then back to Michael O Church the guy who laid the prehistory:
finish with this:
https://mereorthodoxy.com/michael-scott-theory-social-class/
Supplemental reading:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
and this:
https://nintil.com/slaying-alexanders-moloch/
Tangentially related:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-libertarian-faq/