Note I am borrowing from a real life example Graeber borrowed from one of the anarchist societies he lived in while anthropologising. So my theorising might clash with Graeber's ghost, and the currently living innately anarchistic but I came up with this example I thought demonstrated real life night sorcery: Imagine three people in a fairly homogeneous anarchic village. Person B is one of many similar fisherpeople, and person C is one of many similar fish-smokers. Person A does some equations, and concludes that if instead of the relatively unstructured way the fishers are bringing in their catches, and fish-smokers are getting, smoking, and disseminating smoked fish, if B and C form a committed team of fisher and fish-smoker, they will begin operating more efficiently than the rest of the village. This daily positive flux of value relative to the other villagers is split evenly between persons A, B, and C. What I have found by talking to people is that it's pretty intuitive person A can be seen as being doing something morally wrong in this scenario, even though person A is the iconic capitalist hero character. Person A has had an idea to restructure the village from being flat, to funneling value 1) Person A's proportional value relative to the village is increasing passively 2) Persons B and C are accruing proportional value from the village through efficient labor My understanding of a villager having delved too deeply into the power of Night Sorcery by destroying other villagers' lives and cannibalising them is prototypically person A. In contrast, persons B and C without a person A could cooperate and this culling of advantage is also night witchcraft, but not an insane indulgence: Perhaps they could also marry, in which case deeper coordination is implied.