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Power is power in whatever guise it takes. Merit and skills translate as materialist benefits which grow to superior status, that's fine, as long as its not used to dominate or restrict those who don't value materialistic skills or the merit to master them.
In plain words, if someone wants to NOT GO to school, and wants to remain illiterate, and wants to be lazy and sit under a tree on the riverbank catching fish, they don't want a SHAMAN coming along telling them a river spook forbids them fishing and living there in a small family unit, YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE TRIBE or you will be punished.
Stirner is right, it all comes down to hierarchical spooks messing with individual freedoms and constructing hierarchical systems of power for the benefit of an elite.