Wealth as a burden
While reading this article, I found the discussion of wealth with hunter gatherers interesting. There is a misconception that hunter gatherers lived day to day, with most of their time taken up by hunting for meals. There is also a misconception, on the other end, that hunter gatherers couldn’t get a plentiful amount of food. A lot of people have the belief that if hunters could get more food, they surely would. This is most likely wrong. « Of the hunter it is truly said that his wealth is a burden », this cleared up this misconception for me, and clarified that hunter gatherers could have very well had an intricate society and way of living. The phrase I quoted was said in reference to wealth as a hunter gatherer. During this time, that material had to be taken with you on any journeys that you go. To have a plentiful amount of food was not very smart in some cases because you wouldn’t me able to take it wherever you go as easily. Food quantities had to be thought out. And after reading this, I had a better understanding of how impressive they were as a whole