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10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Hunter Gatherers - The Main Impetus Away From Agaletarianism

Evidence for farming as a means of subsistence only starts after we get into the holicene geological era, which starts about 12 thousand years ago. When hunter gatherers in different places and times found themselves in conditions where hunting and gathering was no longer sustainable they now had the option to switch to agriculture. Men and women form gendered organizations to defend their interests and to make sure that the other gender never gets an upper hand. Meanwhile, one sub set of hunter gather societies that we know of are extremely agaletari, and deliberately so. They have all sorts of institutions and practices to make sure nobody ever accumulates much more property or authority than any one else.

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