I hear this claim a fair bit, admittedly often in communist spaces.

It is said that any group of people bigger than 50-200 people "requires" hierarchy.

I'm not sure about that.

What do anarchists make of this?

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people wont do the hard work of coordination necessary for society to function at scale unless they get something out of it

What about the direct actual result of the effort; a world that functions at scale? Some people might actually want that, and if needs are met, why not take it up as a project?

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