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This is not uncommon for poor people the world over, including poor white people in the US.
by whiddershins 6y ago
This is not uncommon for poor people the world over, including poor white people in the US.
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoIt's pretty much the norm for most of history. Even medieval farmers did the same thing[1]. It's a very rational risk mitigation strategy. [1] https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers/ https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
- whiddershins 6y agoThe only issue is that there is a nasty side effect from the freeloader problem. Through most of human history there were various mechanisms in place to punish people who weren’t ‘doing their fair share.’ It seems like it shouldn’t be such a big deal but I wonder if it can actually be crippling to have no good mechanism to address whether someone is coasting off of others.