When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“In 1999, the anthropologist Christopher Boehm addressed this issue in Hierarchy in the Forest, which reviewed the lifestyles of dozens of small-scale human groups. Perhaps surprisingly, he found that they are egalitarian. Material inequality is kept to a minimum; goods… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image