What you describe was literally the cause of the revolutionary war in the US!
No, the British were actually taxing the Americans without representation and running kangaroo courts, though the tea ship the colonists attacked wasn't really all that involved.
Re:Farewell, Building in Public
by thecoppinger on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:31PM
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I wrote my original comment at the midnight hour as I was falling asleep; I should have clarified that I meant more ancient than that, i.e. pre-agriculture, post-cave dwelling.
More along the lines of:
Jim has a bad habit of being a bit of a dick—harassing & bullying tribespeople, taking an unfair amount from the tribe—Jim gets removed from the gene pool next hunting trip. The quality of the tribe, present and future, improves.
I understand how this kind of thing doesn't track very well as a strategy overall in more complex & modern environments.
Often times this included moneylenders.. who were usually a religious minority. It usually involved their kids too.