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Gwynevere posted...

Yeah that's one of the strangest takes I've seen on CE in quite awhile

Using modern definitions of terms like capital and ascribing it to a culture that predates those definitions doesn't seem like the best idea to me. I wouldn't call indigenous people growing food and making clothing "building capital"

You can thank Wings for side-tracking into that bullshit. When I made my initial comment about starting a nation in response to him saying "poverty is created", I was thinking along the lines of needing to raise resources so you have a reasonable starting point. Building factories to make clothes and other needs at good efficiency. Farms to feed people. The starting point is poverty, nothing, and you have to build things to get going. You don't create poverty. It's nonsense. It's like saying you create empty space.

But this guy makes an argument that tribesmen have food and clothes so they are rich. Somehow people who need to hunt animals to eat and skin them for clothes are better off than living in a society where you can do less hours of work and get better quality food, shelter, and clothes.