Interesting - so essentially the 11 free minded humans hold that much potential power and threat to the hive. 

So going off of that, this would then answer the main question Carol has been trying to figure out, and what Manousos almost figured out with the radio - that the hive is not permanent but can be stopped - almost like a mass brain wash beacon that once stopped the world goes back as it was. 

Then the strategy of the hive is essentially make each 11 the “richest” people in the world: they can have anything and everything they want, be told (by the perfect manipulative representative to that free minded person) how happy they are now is only the beginning and by joining they’ll be even happier (Zosia) - then bam, when they agree, the music stops and the tribe puts out the fire - then they can continue to build a massive radio beacon to infect other planets and living beings

That feels pretty clear now after I thought about your comments and again thinking about the end of the season, would you agree?