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Actually you'll find there are cultures around the globe where you are expected to share more than 50% if you receive a windfall... The less than 50% thing is v
by tankenmate 11y ago
Actually you'll find there are cultures around the globe where you are expected to share more than 50% if you receive a windfall... The less than 50% thing is very much a western world phenomenon; and a US one in particular.
- linhchi 11y agoyeah, but in tribes or backward society, with agriculture or hunter-gatherer .. it's kinda hard to compare between these two kinds of society, people deal with very different things everyday
- tankenmate 11y agoYou'll find that gift cultures exist today that have long since stopped being agrarian; the Philippines and Thailand come to mind. In the big cities the gift culture is still alive and well. It is quite a different culture to the predominately protestant individualistic society that is America though.[0] [0] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/31914331_J._Henrich__R._Boyd__S._Bowles__C._Camerer__E._Fehr__H._Gintis_%28eds.%29_Foundations_of_Human_Sociality_Economic_Experiment http://www.researchgate.net/publication/31914331_J._Henrich_...