Did cultures that rejected or abandoned proportional wealth-sharing experience measurable differences in economic stability or social cohesion?

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• No papers directly compare cultures with vs without proportional wealth-sharing norms—all focus on modeling wealth distribution within single economic systems rather than cross-cultural comparative analysis of sharing institutionsfinding0.836
  Core empirical finding of the search: identifies the absence of cross-cultural comparative work on wealth-sharing institutions and their economic/social outcomes.
• Most models focus on market-based or state-enforced redistribution rather than voluntary/community-based wealth-sharing mechanisms that existed in pre-modern societies.claim0.746
  Key finding: contemporary economics literature systematically excludes historical voluntary mechanisms.
• The existence of structure-destroying transformations as a social norm is linked to a breakdown in the perception of wholeness itself.claim0.741
  Causal link between perception and destruction.
• Mirror experiment cross-cultural agreement: people consistently choose the same objects as resembling their eternal self.finding0.735
  In the mirror-of-the-self experiments, people from the same culture and even different cultures agree to a significant extent on which objects embody their eternal self.
• The zero-sum view of intelligence — that recognizing shared features between AI and humans devalues humans — must be abandoned as humanity matures.claim0.732
  Argues that the impulse to sharply demarcate humans from AI stems from misguided zero-sum thinking
• In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.731
  Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
• the relative harmony or 'life' of a given building may be understood directly from the internal cohesion of the structure... without reference to opinion, prejudice or philosophy, merely as a consequence of the wholeness which exists.quote0.731
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• The wholeness of a place is actually different — not merely perceived differently — when the cultural saliences of its occupants changeclaim0.731
  Argument illustrated by the chair-plus-scrap-iron and Point Lobos Yurok examples