Scotch sales tend to be high in hierarchical societies.

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This means that success is possible for a far wider range of people in a market, making market societies inherently less hierarchical than more closed ones.

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Moreover, an absence of hierarchical class structures that typify older societies has extended competitive opportunities to all who seek them.

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