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Re: Status Matters: Material Economy vs. (4.00 / 4)
Think "Potlatch"
North Western Indians when they found themselves posessed of a surfeit of wealth, had a dynamite party and gave it all away. Giving became a source of status, instead of getting.

Man, is that beautiful heresy.

 

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Oct 20th, 2007 at 11:17:07 PM EST
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