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However the greater the complication and sophistication required to produce ends the greater the degree and necessity of hierarchy. Complex civilization is mandated to hierarchal social structures to maintain infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water and sewage, phone service, transportation services, to say nothing of things like satellite communications. In terms of progressively advanced technological society the necessity of complex social hierarchy is not inherent to the human genetic or biological structure but is created by the aims and ends of the society.
Again in terms of the concept of Progressive Materialism in which material is
necessary for the creation of technologically advanced societies, the hierarchy of dyadic evaluation is also used as means of determining what can and cannot be transformed and destroyed for use as material to create alternatives to
nature. As a general rule that which is undeveloped or primitive can be used to create something more advanced, as anything from undeveloped land being confiscated from primitive peoples being used as slaves to develop more
sophisticated organs of civilization.
The use of hierarchal ranking is convenient to the promotion of inequality as
the advantage to some by the disadvantage of others. The means of hierarchy may also act as a method for the distribution of the results and products of the societal production of goods and services, such that rank may determine who gets what and how much. The penalties for criminal behavior can also be based upon rank, with unequal sanctions for the same transgression applied differently to persons of unequal rank. The determination of rank can take any number of forms from degrees of the possession of education, wealth, property, proficiency and skill, birthright, the ability to use force or physical characteristics such as race, but as a general rule is based upon the degree to which persons and entities are progressed and advanced from the primitive or undeveloped natural state.
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