03-20-2009, 02:52 AM
I agree.
And even without money, there was still taxation. And if you were unfortunate enough to be one of the aboriginal pre-Hawaiian migration Awena people stuck on the scorched earth reservation in Ka'u, taxation generally meant death.
It is interesting to note however that in even in Hawaiian culture the greatest threat to personal sustainability was the need to produce extra resources in order to subsidize a dead beat consumer class that contributed nothing but controlled the laws.
Anything to learn from that?
And even without money, there was still taxation. And if you were unfortunate enough to be one of the aboriginal pre-Hawaiian migration Awena people stuck on the scorched earth reservation in Ka'u, taxation generally meant death.
It is interesting to note however that in even in Hawaiian culture the greatest threat to personal sustainability was the need to produce extra resources in order to subsidize a dead beat consumer class that contributed nothing but controlled the laws.
Anything to learn from that?