The elite are necessary, but not for socialist redistribution. I was reading about some Eastern Mediterranean old civilization — one of the earlier lists of laws. One of the laws impressed me, it said robbing or harassing traders was a really, really bad thing. That’s what the elite did; they protected private property. If you protect private property, you will get rich. They understood.
Yep. At its peak, the empire ruled by Genghis Khan was said to be so orderly that a virgin maiden could walk from one end of the kingdom to the other with a pot of gold balanced on the top of her head and not be molested.