Jordan Peterson seems to say that hierarchies are an evolutionary structure valuable and ineradicable for many animal life forms, including humans. Jordan argues that Communits arguing for eradication immediately of hierarchies as unjust, socially constructed class systems is not only bad science, but is biologically and socially impossible to eliminate. In fact, even if they eliminated it, we would just erect new hierarchies of haves, labeled the oppressors, and the have-nots, labeled the victims. To blame the existence of hierarchies on the very recent arrival of capitalism is to be hopelessly naive and incorrect.
My take on hierarchies has been that they are natural social structures. To move towards an egalitarian society is desirable, not to be achieved as a direct, unnatural reform, but as a more or less achieved outcome that will result when people no longer group-live (tribalism, crowdism and collective living are where stratification is strongest and least amenable to eradication), but individual-live, individuate, follow God, and live as free citizens and supercitizens under a constitutional republic with a free market economic system.
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