I notice that some anthropologist believe all humans were egalitarian in the past, and others believe inequality was more common they we currently we think with hunter gathers.

This seems to along with anthropologist using modern hunter gathers as way to look at the past which is now considered not a best practice from what I read. Which this influenced the egalitarian hunter gathers idea even more.

  • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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    3 years ago

    This doesn’t happen because hunter gatherer societies don’t generate a surplus

    Sure they do. Someone is gonna be bigger and stronger or just luckier and get access to better hunting grounds, more fertile patches for horticulture, etc. The primitive accumulation process starts before people settle permanently.