The Emergence of Inequality in Small-scale Societies: Simple Scenarios and Agent-based Simulations
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A big family has cultivated fruitful soil; two little families nearby have thankless and rebellious fields. The two poor families have to serve the opulent family, or slaughter it; there is no difficulty in that. But one of the two indigent families offers its arms to the rich family in exchange for bread, while the other attacks and is defeated. The subservient family is the origin of the servants and the workmen; the beaten family is the origin of the slaves. ─ Voltaire (from "Equality," Philosophical Dictionary, 1750)
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تاریخ انتشار 2006