Azz on Nostr: Sort of. At a simple level, as soon as people started farming, they created an ...

Sort of.

At a simple level, as soon as people started farming, they created an incentive for violent raiders to come and plunder the harvest. Out of necessary they had to pay a government to recognise their ownership and provide protection. But once that government was formed their source of income was from extracting the labour of others. A neighbouring government that was more successful in harnessing citizens labour could overthrow and conquer the less extractive government. The government must demand a monopoly on violence, on an on until its a massive communist empire.

But larger empires require more bureaucracy which becomes inefficient.

Not all technology enables the violence, some resist it, like castle walls did before dynamite.