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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 08:25 PM
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3. Umm, unsuccessful by what standard? That's an unbelievably arrogant statement.

Success is not solely defined by Western money-grubbing standards.
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  -"Tendency Toward Egalitarianism May Have Helped Us Survive" (NYT/Science) OneGrassRoot  Jul-11-11 07:39 PM   #0 
  - K&R  marmar   Jul-11-11 07:50 PM   #1 
  - this is just plain wrong.  provis99   Jul-11-11 08:22 PM   #2 
  - Umm, unsuccessful by what standard? That's an unbelievably arrogant statement.  marmar   Jul-11-11 08:25 PM   #3 
  - unsuccessful as in barely surviving.  provis99   Jul-11-11 08:57 PM   #4 
     - Umm...some of us ARE forced to be concerned with day to day  Hydra   Jul-11-11 09:09 PM   #5 
        - so you agree then that hunter-gatherers aren't a successful society?  provis99   Jul-11-11 09:11 PM   #6 
           - We can debate pro's/con's of agri vs Hunt/Gather some other day  Hydra   Jul-11-11 09:23 PM   #7 
              - so you don't want to talk about the OP. Okey dokey.  provis99   Jul-11-11 09:33 PM   #8 
                 - If you want to discuss how helping people out is bad  Hydra   Jul-11-11 09:39 PM   #9 
  - "Look at me! I'm SMART!" -- LOL, says the real smart guy to the dummy  tcaudilllg   Jul-12-11 12:05 AM   #11 
  - Don't forget that they only "work" a few hours a week for their food either...  saras   Jul-11-11 10:42 PM   #10 
 

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