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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.