What if universal income isn’t a revolution - but a return?
In this quiet, cinematic journey through deep time, we trace the forgotten origins of fairness - from the sharing of mammoth meat beneath Paleolithic firelight to the redistributive systems of early civilizations. The Return of the Gift explores how every economy, from forager circles to temple ledgers, was once a story about trust, survival, and shared energy. And how, in the modern world, our ancient brain still remembers that fairness feels like safety.
🕯️ The story of humanity… told softly.
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𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒:
00:00 - The Mammoth and the Debt
12:33 - Firelight Redistribution
26:12 - The Gift Economy of Survival
40:35 - The Networked Hunters
54:09 - The Feast as a System
1:07:05 - The Problem of Storage
1:20:13 - Seeds, Debt, and Memory
1:33:17 - The Village Account
1:45:26 - The Beer Dividend
1:57:50 - Temples of Distribution
2:11:15 - The First Paychecks
2:24:36 - Kings, Priests, and Ledgers
2:36:50 - The Forgotten Egalitarians
2:49:05 - Inequality Becomes Habit
3:01:10 - The Brain That Remembers Fairness
3:13:56 - The Return of the Gift
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📌 Calm science, evolutionary psychology, no hype, no speculation - just what we know so far. Bedtime stories for burnt-out sapiens.
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► REFERENCES:
• Sahlins, Marshall. Stone Age Economics. Aldine-Atherton, 1972.
• Boehm, Christopher. Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Wrangham, Richard. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Basic Books, 2009.
• Berna, Francesco et al. “Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences;
• Trivers, Robert. “The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism.” Quarterly Review of Biology 46 (1971);
• Nowak, Martin and Sigmund, Karl. “Evolution of Indirect Reciprocity.” Nature 437 (2005):
• Van De Mieroop, Marc. King Hammurabi of Babylon: A Biography. Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
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