• “Two courses of affluence” (pg. 2)—KH

• The misconception that Australian Aborigines struggle for food. p. 7—CS

• How is author’s discover of a materially affluent stone age society emphasis the danger of our unexamined assumptions? (pg. 13, General Principles of Economics)—PY

• My topic: “people do not work hard” (Page 17 2nd paragraph)—JC

• What do author’s reevaluated (pg. 32) two models have to do with the following quote from Sophie’s World: “We who live here are microscopic insects existing deep down in the rabbit’s fur. But philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician’s eyes”?—PY

• (Page 33) The author’s thoughts on hunter-gatherers made me think of the Australian aborigines and Plains Native Americans who chose to keep hunting and gathering even after the introduction of more advanced technologies.—WF

• Although the earlier societies are affluent in the sense that they have a lack of desire for material wants, would you consider the trade-off worthy? As the author mentions (on pg. 35) the amount of work increases with the evolution of culture, so is becoming affluent in this sense worthy of lacking culture?—EA

• On Page 36, near the bottom, the idea that we now live in the age of hunger arises. Is this a valid statement? Has the definition of hunger changed?—SM

• Why did humans develop civilization if being a hunter-gatherer is more relaxing? (38)—BF

• Is our assumption that Paleolithic hunters had low standards of living more related to social aspects of their way of living rather than their accumulation of resources?—PW