Wengrow TED talk 6/22/22 on the roots of inequality

Human social development did not proceed per the old myth. With the dawn of agriculture we did not immediately form a stratified culture with a small group of  privileged owners and a lot of exploited laborers. For four thousand years we developed culturally and technologically without that sort of inequality.

Based on the extensive evidence in Graeber and Wengrow's book The Dawn of Everything it turns out that humanity made a choice that led to inequality supported by a theory of 'civilized' development to rationalize it. Hence we inheritors of the capitalistic society perhaps need to examine its roots and assumptions and make different choices going forward based on the growing archeological evidence?