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+:date: 2011-07-25 10:59:31
+:author: bnewbold
+:category: quote
+:slug: 2011-07-25-societies-everywhere-fall-between-two-extremes
+:status: published
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+Societies everywhere fall between two extremes. First, there are
+societies in which every person works, and no one is demeaned by his or
+her toil. In these societies, individuals pride themselves on their
+workmanship, and they exhibit a natural concern for the welfare of their
+entire community. As examples of such “productive” societies, Veblen
+mentions Native Americans, the Ainus of Japan, the Todas of the Nilgiri
+hills and the bushmen of Australia. Second, there are “barbarian”
+societies, in which a single dominant class (usually of warriors) seizes
+the wealth and produce of others through force or fraud—think ancient
+Vikings, Japanese shoguns and Polynesian tribesmen. Farmers labor for
+their livelihood and warriors expropriate the fruits of that labor.
+Exploitative elites take no part in the actual production of wealth;
+they live off the toil of others. Yet far from being judged criminal or
+indolent, they are revered by the rest of the community. In barbarian
+societies, nothing is as manly, as venerated, as envied, as the lives of
+warriors. Their every trait—their predatory practices, their dress,
+their sport, their gait, their speech—is held in high esteem by all.
+
+— `Etay Zwick in The
+Point <http://www.thepointmag.com/archive/predatory-habits/>`__
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