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Comment by Heart_Usurper at 27/01/2025 at 11:01 UTC*
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Check out "the original affluent society" by Marshall Sahlins. His essay focuses on mobility as the primary motivation behind hunter-gatherer modes of living and further argues that poverty is a social construct. Also, what might be interesting is "the dawn of everything" by David Grabber and David Wengrow. Graeber was a student of Sahlins, who - in this book - further contextualizes Sahlin's essay. Claude Meillassoux wrote an essay, where he compares the ways hunter-gatherers reproduced to the political endeavour reproduction among sedentary societies has become. I forgot the name of the essay though, but still think it might be enlightening though.
Edit: I completely forgot about James Suzman's "Affluence without abundance".