DAY 5: LECTURE NOTES: 2.3. Inequality & Domination Before Modern Economic Growth
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Once people began to farm, especially farm grains, they become relatively stationary: Agriculturalists cannot carry their resources away with them. Their wealth is in their land and the crops they are growing, rather than in their heads and in the tools they carry. Thus farmers cannot run away when thugs-with-spears show up, and demand half their crop.
DAY 5: LECTURE NOTES: 2.3. Inequality & Domination Before Modern Economic Growth
DAY 5: LECTURE NOTES: 2.3. Inequality …
DAY 5: LECTURE NOTES: 2.3. Inequality & Domination Before Modern Economic Growth
Once people began to farm, especially farm grains, they become relatively stationary: Agriculturalists cannot carry their resources away with them. Their wealth is in their land and the crops they are growing, rather than in their heads and in the tools they carry. Thus farmers cannot run away when thugs-with-spears show up, and demand half their crop.