ABSTRACT
Large differences in wealth tend to generate differences of interest. This can reach a stage where interests are not only different, they clash. Once that happens a basis for voluntary co-operation is weakened. An obvious possible solution to this problem has been: fissioning. Fissioning could work in this case, too, e.g. if there is a very rich group and a very poor group, then one - quite possibly the latter - can simply move on. There are administrative costs to the management of wealth - it has to be housed securely and so forth. There might be psychological costs as well: fear of being robbed and/or killed. Being not so rich as to have to create such an alien, not to mention risky, world for oneself is arguably better great wealth differences create a Hobbesian state of nature between the haves and have-nots.
