GROUP CYBER CRIMINALS: You want to be a good decent person, you basically mind your own business and take care of your family.

You don’t go “organize” with strangers to do s***.

You know who does? You know who needs a high degree of sophisticated, covert, subtle, barely detectible organization? Criminals.

Decent people live life and criminals are always finding new and clever ways to secretly cooperate and organize themselves … to f*** people over.

Now develop this process for a few thousand years.

Even if you have a reactionary mechanism … guess who has:

A head start
Lots of resources based on criminal activity
The advantage of being hidden, so you never quite know who you’re fighting, what their numbers are, etc.
Evil has the advantage in game theory.

It’s not the best overall strategy by far, this has been proven.

But once evil is introduced into the equation, it breeds mistrust and cooperation quickly falls apart and people refuse to trust anymore because one “getting fucked really good” sets you back in ways that are very costly and time-consuming to recover from … and that’s assuming you recover at all.

Introduce an element of confusion and distrust, cloak it in local customs so its somewhat acceptable and it’s true origins and motives remain hidden, and you got a constant and ever-present reminder to the king that “they never quite know what the locals are up to … could be having beer … could be planning a violet overthrow of the crown.