This can be done right now. The problem is finding the people who want to live like that. So who wants to live like that? Please reply.
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Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 hours agoThere is an African tribe that picks the wealthiest member of the tribe to take care of everyone until they are broke. They do this willingly because after they spend all their money the tribe takes care of them. They will never need a place to stay because anyone would host them. They don’t need food or clothing because anyone would give them whatever they need.
We need reset like this. A way to make wealth accumulation a positive thing.
plyth@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Doomsider@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Obviously no one. That goes without saying.
plyth@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Why? If you say that we should live like that don’t you want it for yourself?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I was saying we need something positive to benefit society and the wealthy person to deal with people accumulating too much wealth.
The story just shows us it is possible and makes me think of other possibilities.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Which tribe does this?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It was in my Anthropology book, I will have to go dig around for it. I tried a Google search but all I could get was crap.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
It’s just one of those things that sounds sorta believable and has a feel good message but a lot of those are actually bunk
Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
No, I remember reading it. There is a lot of niche knowledge you cannot find on the Internet easily.
There are a lot of African traditions around gift giving (like potlatch) and redistribution of wealth as well as concepts of collective wealth (Ubuntu). Here is an article that talks about it, but does not mention the specific tribe I was thinking about. www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3600660/