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burritojustice ("Burrito Justice") wrote:
“Faced with the pressures of modernization and capitalism, their traditional exchange systems, based on barter and gifting, now seemed obsolete.
And while previously self-sufficient, they suddenly felt relative deprivation compared to the foreigners’ opulent lifestyles. It was against this backdrop that cargo cults emerged” https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-ritual-mind/202305/what-cargo-cult-rituals-show-us-about-human-nature