What do you think produces inequality in society

[pricklysponge]

[The Comrade]

yes but how did that really contribute to the rise of islamism?

madhism is an effect, not a cause.

[JDHURF]

[Boris Johnson]

[JDHURF]

[Boris Johnson]

[JDHURF]

I will wait until you get to the rest of it because the most important points you have left unaddressed for now. I will, however, go ahead and make two comments. First of all, even if there was a severe shortage of resources, that fact does not justify the nefarious inequality engendered by global capitalism. Secondly, I didn't claim that you made a comment about dominance, but you did make a comment about inequality. You issued the claim that inequality has been present from time immemorial. I then observed that anthropological work, work which is actually quite uncontroversial anymore, shows otherwise.

[Boris Johnson]

1) Not claiming to justify it. Not trying to justify it, not going to justify it. Please stop with that.
2) Yeah, still think it is. Even if you could prove that one 'tribal' hunter gather group was completely equal in its distribution of resources (and, good luck with that). You don't there by eliminate the possible of other tribes having an unequal disbitution of resources even amongst their industrial or the tribes themselves comparative to that one group. One thing hunter gathers are, after all that people forget. In short the possibility, nay likelihood of one tribe having the best foraging grounds, killing other tribes that go near to protect it and there by impoverishing several other groups. Extremely territorial. I will grant you there are interesting MODELS of how places like Jericho could have started (spesifically WE THINK BASED ON POTTERY AND HOUSING FOUNDATIONS, that the neolithic levant, night have had some pretty jiving early proto agritcultural 'towns'), but to suggest we emerged into tyranny out of hundreds of years of hugging and we just forgot how to be equal. Not what fragmentary evidence there is suggests.

[JDHURF]

Do you ever intend on giving a proper full response?

[broken robot]