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  • R [email protected]

    Which tribe does this?

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    It was in my Anthropology book, I will have to go dig around for it. I tried a Google search but all I could get was crap.

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      Which other possibilities do you have in mind?

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      It has to be a solution that benefits both parties, but I also recognize that one party is giving up something tangible.

      They have to be compensated in some real way. That is why I propose make a wish for the ultra wealthy. We pick an obscenely rich person, take 99% of what they own, and give them the one thing money can't buy. A real wish that can be anything humans can reasonably provide.

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        This is exactly how i kiss as well. I've never understood why ppl purse their lips (you look like a duck!) . For me, it's always been closed mouth, lips tight, and aiming for the mustache, so our lips dont actually meet and my mouth never looks weird for the cameras.

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        Hi sorry is this sarcasm as in you're making light of how Taylor is missing the guy in the photo or are you being genuine

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          Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door

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          distraction of the masses from politics, a tale as old as time. people are too invested in sports/celebreties often are very ignorant of the policies/politics around them, and they dont realize this just a distraction from Class issues.

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            Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door

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            look how much i don't care guys, i made a monument to the things i don't care about.

            not caring about things is not a virtue. you want people to care about something else you should work on that messaging. "you're stupid to care about this" is reddit atheist coded bullshit that has never worked in the history of mankind.

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              It was in my Anthropology book, I will have to go dig around for it. I tried a Google search but all I could get was crap.

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              It's just one of those things that sounds sorta believable and has a feel good message but a lot of those are actually bunk

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                Hi sorry is this sarcasm as in you're making light of how Taylor is missing the guy in the photo or are you being genuine

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                yeah im joking

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                  look how much i don't care guys, i made a monument to the things i don't care about.

                  not caring about things is not a virtue. you want people to care about something else you should work on that messaging. "you're stupid to care about this" is reddit atheist coded bullshit that has never worked in the history of mankind.

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                  Imo it is fucking stupid to care about this stuff though. Celebrity worship is a cancer. Obsessing about the love lives of total strangers because they're famous is not only pointless but also destructive.

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                    It has to be a solution that benefits both parties, but I also recognize that one party is giving up something tangible.

                    They have to be compensated in some real way. That is why I propose make a wish for the ultra wealthy. We pick an obscenely rich person, take 99% of what they own, and give them the one thing money can't buy. A real wish that can be anything humans can reasonably provide.

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                    The problem is that the money comes with power. They already get something just by owning it.

                    If a billionaire asks you to be their partner for life and to love them, as the one thing that money can't buy, would you?

                    I think if people create a community that billionaires want to join in exchange for their money, wouldn't that community already be so thriving that they don't need the money? *

                    And if the community needs the money, what could offload the guilt that comes with the money? The community would become the billionaire.

                    * strange that people don't try to do that, even without money.

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                      Imo it is fucking stupid to care about this stuff though. Celebrity worship is a cancer. Obsessing about the love lives of total strangers because they're famous is not only pointless but also destructive.

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                      i don't care about it but i also find the air of superiority from people who boast about not caring about this to be worse than actually caring about it. everyone cares about stupid shit. people just talk about this because it's more demographically aligned with women. there's disproportionate hate towards things women tend to like because we're taught from childhood that it's uncool.

                      guarantee most of the people shitting on it here either mald about some ladder they're unhealthily trying to climb, or have a pokemon card collection, or treat that one movie they found to be super cool as their bible or some shit.

                      let people enjoy what they like. don't act you only care about the environment and world hunger.

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                        It's just one of those things that sounds sorta believable and has a feel good message but a lot of those are actually bunk

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                        No, I remember reading it. There is a lot of niche knowledge you cannot find on the Internet easily.

                        There are a lot of African traditions around gift giving (like potlatch) and redistribution of wealth as well as concepts of collective wealth (Ubuntu). Here is an article that talks about it, but does not mention the specific tribe I was thinking about.
                        https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3600660/

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                          No, I remember reading it. There is a lot of niche knowledge you cannot find on the Internet easily.

                          There are a lot of African traditions around gift giving (like potlatch) and redistribution of wealth as well as concepts of collective wealth (Ubuntu). Here is an article that talks about it, but does not mention the specific tribe I was thinking about.
                          https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3600660/

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                          With the article being rather long, does it mention the particular tradition talked about here? I don't doubt you've read it, I am just skeptical if it is a real tradition. And it's hard to gauge that with no info

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                            The problem is that the money comes with power. They already get something just by owning it.

                            If a billionaire asks you to be their partner for life and to love them, as the one thing that money can't buy, would you?

                            I think if people create a community that billionaires want to join in exchange for their money, wouldn't that community already be so thriving that they don't need the money? *

                            And if the community needs the money, what could offload the guilt that comes with the money? The community would become the billionaire.

                            * strange that people don't try to do that, even without money.

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                            It would have to be something society is willing to do (make the wish happen). Obviously what I said was slightly in jest, but I am just trying to think outside the paradigm we seem to be stuck in.

                            I like your idea of community absorbing the billionaire if they were willing. Yes, they would have to be pretty well off to begin with, but if they did then everyone would get the benefit instead of a minority. Even well off communities could be improved with infrastructure upgrades or other things that would collectively benefit everyone.

                            You bring an interesting point of the guilt of money and transferring that guilt to the community. I think this might be the rational needed to create a tradition like this. Accumulation of money should be seen as a negative thing and we should have mechanisms to take care of it.

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                              look how much i don't care guys, i made a monument to the things i don't care about.

                              not caring about things is not a virtue. you want people to care about something else you should work on that messaging. "you're stupid to care about this" is reddit atheist coded bullshit that has never worked in the history of mankind.

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                              As many as one-third of the general public may experience celebrity worship on a borderline pathological level. source

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                                Why does Taylor Swift get such a massive pass from everybody in terms of scrutiny?

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                                  As many as one-third of the general public may experience celebrity worship on a borderline pathological level. source

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                                  better Taylor than a politician.

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                                    Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door

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                                    What I find hilariously, self-centered and tone deaf, funny is they announced the engagement on a day when across the NFL players were getting cut and losing their jobs across the league on cut down day.

                                    40 of Kelsy's team mates lost their jobs on that day. But I suppose overshadowing that got the NFL more clicks and eyeballs.

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                                      i don't care about it but i also find the air of superiority from people who boast about not caring about this to be worse than actually caring about it. everyone cares about stupid shit. people just talk about this because it's more demographically aligned with women. there's disproportionate hate towards things women tend to like because we're taught from childhood that it's uncool.

                                      guarantee most of the people shitting on it here either mald about some ladder they're unhealthily trying to climb, or have a pokemon card collection, or treat that one movie they found to be super cool as their bible or some shit.

                                      let people enjoy what they like. don't act you only care about the environment and world hunger.

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                                      because society pushes women to like these things under social pressure. it's kind of gross. there's nothing wrong with things women like, but this is manufactured. But hey, better than MAGA's worshipping drump.

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                                        What I find hilariously, self-centered and tone deaf, funny is they announced the engagement on a day when across the NFL players were getting cut and losing their jobs across the league on cut down day.

                                        40 of Kelsy's team mates lost their jobs on that day. But I suppose overshadowing that got the NFL more clicks and eyeballs.

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                                        If those people took school seriously and have other skills then great, they'll do fine. If they've spent their whole existence on a sports career lottery ticket so they could be rich and famous and live better than us commoners, that was their choice. I'll save my sympathy for people who get laid off from jobs other than sports and entertainment jobs that are only about clicks and eyeballs in the first place.

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                                          What I find hilariously, self-centered and tone deaf, funny is they announced the engagement on a day when across the NFL players were getting cut and losing their jobs across the league on cut down day.

                                          40 of Kelsy's team mates lost their jobs on that day. But I suppose overshadowing that got the NFL more clicks and eyeballs.

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                                          thats just the business of the league not everybody is good enough to make a team and nobody likes cutting players

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