"Everyone in Ju/’hoan communities scrutinised everybody else all the time..." - https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...are_btn_tw
Yeah, try that in a popular culture that has come to eschew all judgement. IOW, it's the same mentality that condemns judging others as envious that would also condemn the sort of societal judgement necessary to remove all envy. You can't have one without the other.
The author seems to use the word "egalitarian" as some sort of talisman, even though the US is highly egalitarian. He also downplays the huge discrepancy between “primitive affluence” and actual affluence/prosperity...and the unsustainable nature of “primitive affluence” in modern, populous societies.
Yeah, try that in a popular culture that has come to eschew all judgement. IOW, it's the same mentality that condemns judging others as envious that would also condemn the sort of societal judgement necessary to remove all envy. You can't have one without the other.
The author seems to use the word "egalitarian" as some sort of talisman, even though the US is highly egalitarian. He also downplays the huge discrepancy between “primitive affluence” and actual affluence/prosperity...and the unsustainable nature of “primitive affluence” in modern, populous societies.