Two things: (1) It is an act of stupefying reduction to claim that every human society, across space and time, can be fitted into one of two models. That is ju

Two things: (1) It is an act of stupefying reduction to claim that every human society, across space and time, can be fitted into one of two models. That is just not very insightful or helpful. I am not talking about 'scales', I am talking about qualitative historical transformations. (2) I am not suggesting that people do no work, I am suggesting they do less work.