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There were plenty of agricultural societies that were also fairly egalitarian. One interesting bias we tend have is that we identify "advanced" societies by how
by AlotOfReading 3y ago
There were plenty of agricultural societies that were also fairly egalitarian. One interesting bias we tend have is that we identify "advanced" societies by how much they look like our own. This leads to a general bias towards deeply hierarchial, stratified societies being described/perceived favorably in media against their less familiar neighbors.
- satvikpendem 3y agoWhich ones were fairly egalitarian compared to others?
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThe ones I was specifically thinking about were the Puebloans of the American Southwest. There's a famous old paper whose title summarizes the situation pretty well: "Although they have petty captains, they obey them badly"
- trgn 3y agoI mean, it doesn't need to be extreme comparisons. We have gini-coefficient already, which captures similar. The rankings correspond reasonably to my intuition too, when I think of which have "elite" universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality#Gini_coefficient,_before_taxes_and_transfers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...