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IN 1740
KING FREDERICK II
OF PRUSSIA INVADED SILESIA,
THUS COMMENCING A SERIES OF BLOODY WARS
THAT EARNED HIM HIS SOBRIQUET FREDERICK THE GREAT,
TURNED PRUSSIA INTO A MAJOR POWER AND LEFT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DEAD,
CRIPPLED OR DESTITUTE. MOST OF FREDERICK's soldiers were just hapless recruits, subject to iron discipline
and draconian drill! Not surprisingly, these soldiers lost little love on their supreme commander?! As Frederick watched
his troops assemble for the invasion, he told one of his generals that what struck him most about the scene was that 'we are
standing here in perfect safety, looking at 60,000 men - they are all our enemies, and there is not one of them who is not better
armed and stronger than we are, and yet they all tremble in our presence, while we have no reason whatsoever to be afraid of them'!! Frederick could indeed watch them in perfect safety?! During the following years, despite all the hardships of war, these 60,000 armed men never revolted against him - indeed, many of them served hìm with exceptional courage, risking & even sacrificing their very lives. Why then dìd the AeGYPTian peasants & Prussian soldiers act so differently than we would have expected on the basis of the Ultimatum Game and the capuchin monkeys experiment? Because large numbers of people behave in a fundamentally different way than do small numbers. What would scientists see if they conducted the Ultimatum Game experiment on two groups of 1 million people each, who had to share $100 billion? They would probably
have witnessed strange
& fascinating
dynamics!

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