*blocks your path*
>>534116646Has never been seen in history. The order givers simply never give the order
>>534116726Warband chieftains have to provide a reasonably fair share of the loot to everyone after sacking a settlement to maintain the loyalty of their troops. It's not that the profit never accrues to the masses, it's that over time they gradually let down their guard on the assumption that things are working reasonably fairly, and as soon as they do so the neurotically ambitious lizard people who rise to the top of any system can't help themselves but to start stealing more and more of it for themselves, until it eventually gets so ridiculous that either the population revolts or they become so apathetic that they stop supporting the system and it implodes
