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"Affordable Family Formation in New Guinea"

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Anonymous dearieme said...

"I was able to buy pigs and get married again": like the average American billionaire, then.

10/26/10, 3:42 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

See, it wasn't a "culture of poverty" that made them "squander" their money on pigs, beer, and wives instead of investing the money in infrastructure, businesses, or securities. It was the structural racism of Papua-New Guinea that made them do it.

10/26/10, 7:08 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"$20,000 to buy 48 pigs"
"15 cases of beer, costing about $800"

Man, life in Papua New Guinea is expensive! At over $13 per six-pack, their cost more than the most expensive of the the about one hundred microbrews in the nearest liquor store. And $20,000 per 48 pigs translates into about $2/lb, which is a price of discount pork in local groceries.

See? That's why people in Papua New Guinea are poor. Life is too expensive there!

10/26/10, 7:25 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alas for the simple joys of buying 15 year old virgins with livestock.

Modern dating scene so much less financially rewarding.

10/26/10, 8:40 AM

Anonymous bbartlog said...

The excerpt does not actually suggest to me that he squandered the money. A relatively small amount used to throw a big party - I doubt he could maintain his social relations without throwing some of it around. Much of it given to ten wives, who presumably will in turn spend it on various descendants, and who if we might stereotype are likely to be more 'responsible' in a Western sense (saving some for later and so on).
And finally some spent to get another young bride... surely sound from an evo-bio point of view! Frankly the guy's allocation sounds extremely good. What was he supposed to do, put it in a box? Pay corrupt Western contractors to put up public infrastructure? It's only squandered in the sense that he no longer has the cash in hand, but that's not a meaningful critique in a society that has other stores of value.

10/26/10, 9:20 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Okay, $20,000 for 48 pigs is about $400 per pig. The usual bride price is 30 pigs, or about $12,000. Heck, I could afford that. Perhaps I should move to PNG.

10/26/10, 10:49 AM

Blogger Default User said...

His face adorned with red and white paint, a pair of industrial safety glasses perched incongruously on a head ornament from which large leaves stuck out

It sounds like he read The Mystery Method.

10/26/10, 12:10 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It sounds better than america. Here you have to pay $20,000 to marry the pig.

10/26/10, 2:34 PM

Anonymous John McCain said...

Coming to a city near you.

10/26/10, 3:04 PM

Anonymous Fred said...

"It sounds like he read The Mystery Method."

That was funny.

10/26/10, 3:20 PM

Anonymous Dave M. said...

I've been looking at maps of New Guinea, and I can't find this big central valley. There are some small valleys, but none nearly large enough to support a million people living in primitive conditions. It looks like rather than two parallel mountain ranges, it is one big mountain range with some valleys interspersed within it.

10/27/10, 3:33 AM

Blogger Truth said...

"It sounds like he read The Mystery Method."

That was funny."

I second

10/27/10, 9:12 AM

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