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I guess in those historical egalitarian cities they had a more egalitarian family structure? What a load of codswallop

• dang 9y ago
  Could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when commenting here? They include these two: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." "Don't be snarky."
  • z0r 9y ago
    I wasn't trying to be snarky, was just objecting to the conclusion of the piece. It argues that inequality in society projects from the structure of family relations, but nothing was spoken about those relationships in the small being any different for their historical examples of egalitarian societies. I'm probably not well enough educated to read this article properly, but the conclusion seems to be weakly supported to me.
    • dang 9y ago
      > It argues that inequality in society projects from the structure of family relations, but nothing was spoken about those relationships in the small being any different for their historical examples of egalitarian societies. That's the sort of substantive point we're looking for in the first place!