On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You have the example of the Pirãha tribe, which is to this day a tribe of > hunter-gatherers in the Amazon. Daniel Everett was the first researcher to > live with them and learn their language. He discovered that they have > absolutely no interest in anything our civilization has to offer. > The Pirãha tribe has a great interest in some things our civilization has to offer, things like machetes, gunpowder, powdered milk, sugar and whiskey , and they will happily trade Brazil nuts and sex to obtain them. >> >> >> I'd far far FAR prefer to be living on the street of New York City than >> be a middle class citizen of Malawi. >> > > > > I don't know, being homeless in NYC sounds pretty awful > Homeless in NYC would sound like paradise to some. A middle class citizen of Malawi makes 62 cents A DAY, a good panhandler in NYC can easily make a hundred times as much, and the manhattanite has free access to garbage cans full of choice delicacies the Malawi guy can only dream about. And a free NYC soup kitchen and flop house would seem like a 4 star restaurant and hotel to a middle class citizen of Malawi. John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
