Food-foraging societies are egalitarian because:
a. humans, in their natural state, like to share.
b. it is unnatural for some people to be richer than others.
c. their mobility and type of technology limits the accumulation of surplus possessions.
d. they are constantly threatened by starvation.
e. their king told them to be that way.
ANSWER: c
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