ease of food-gathering or food-production. For example, among 
the Northwest coast fishermen, or rice-planters of Borneo, huge 
surpluses are produced that have to be destroyed or class 
differences would arise that would destroy the traditional social 
order. In Borneo the traveller may see tons of rice exposed to 
rains in rituals, and great art constructions, involving 
tremendous efforts, smashed.

     At the same time, in these primitive societies, while 
money may release frantic energies in order to charge a bit of 
copper with magical prestige, it can buy very little. Rich and 
poor necessarily live in much the same manner. Today, in the 
electronic age, the richest man is reduced to having much the 
same entertainment, and even the same food and vehicles as 
the ordinary man.