High authoritarians dominate rather than cooperate, bankrupting their world

Evidence

By the time the game ended, 1.7 billion people had died from starvation and disease—nearly all of them in the Third World. Including the 400 million who died in war, the total deaths in the High RWA world reached 2.1 billion. The world was less crowded (6.7 billion) than in the Low RWA run, but Highs achieved population control through starvation, disease, and war. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1750 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hyping a dangerous world drives populations toward authoritarian leaders; High-authoritarianism groups pursue dominance and immediate profit at the cost of long-term survival — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1752; Authoritarian leaders destroyed the world in global simulation games — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1919 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• In a simulated world, high-authoritarian leaders produced famine and war where low-authoritarians cooperated #corroborates (0.95) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1750