Radical Hypothesis wealth + authority

From Robin Hanson's forager hypothesis, comes my claim:

Wealth leads to a strong, natural hatred of formal hierarchy.

If people (and their grandparents, to allow for cultural realities to seep in) are wealthy (as foragers were, and as we are in the West today), the idea of autonomy rules as the primary determinant of folks preferences in government. It is only under conditions of both deep natural scarcity and inability to exit (Malthusian agricultural limits, as for the last 10,000 years of history) that the idea of authority is even marginally tolerable.