Talk:Original affluent society

"However, if cooking, bathing and all life-sustaining activity were counted in addition to employment in Western societies, the average person in a Western society would spend far more than 40 hours per week "sustaining" themselves."

I took this out because their is no citation and the paper it seemed to be replying to was comparing time spent on food acquisition + processing + cooking vs. food acquisition, not food acquisition + processing + cooking + bathing + (all life sustaining activity). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.250.18.127 (talk) 13:21, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

David Kaplan reference

"Lee did not include food preparation time in his study, arguing that "work" should be defined as the time spent gathering enough food for sustenance. When total time spent on food acquisition, processing, and cooking was added together, the estimate per week was 44.5 hours for men and 40.1 hours for women, but Lee added that this is still less than the total hours spent on work and housework in many modern Western households."

"Using data gathered from various foraging societies and quantitative surveys done among the Arhem Landers of Australia and quantitative materials cataloged by Richard Lee on the Dobe Bushmen of the Kalahari, Sahlins argues that hunter-gatherer tribes are able to meet their needs through working roughly 15-20 hours per week or less."

This seriously, dramatically, drastically, hilariously misrepresents Kaplan's paper, which is a strong criticism of the "original affluent society" idea. I will remove these references and expand the criticism section from Kaplan's work.

Unabomber as a source?

The inclusion of "According to Ted Kaczynski..." in the "Criticism" section seems inappropriate to me. Kaczynski was an amateur commentator, not a scholar. 2601:241:0:C8E0:5105:6BDC:CD96:D703 (talk) 23:52, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

References