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buddypal
11/25/2007, 3:01 PM
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Consider the potlatch cultures of the Pacific Northwest. They were engulfed by surplus wealth and made a virtue of giving it away or destroying it. Paradoxically, each individual represented a separate class in what was a classless society. It was all about status, and status had to do with the eschewing of wealth, the opposite of accumulation.
Consider the pyramid cultures of the Southeast. They plowed their upper class under every third generation, so that no hereditary elites survived. Born A, your children were B, their children were C, and their children were A again; all done through strict interclass marriage rules, thus rotating the classes and the wealth.
Both those people must have either missed out on the hard-wiring or there is no such biologicaL basis for inequality.
Both cultures were destroyed by the White invasion.
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