Jacob, the standards of living of the Eskimos (I spend a week with, in Kotzebue, during the late sixties) could not be compared to third world, even now.
About three hundred families:
Per family : a motor boat, nets, two or three fridges, a dozen dogs (for the winter sledge. Some dogs!), a few guns, clear air, great skies, no taxes they remembered of, and more furs that an top model can dream of.
Ok, they didn't know what to make out of a postcard with a camel in sand dunes. So what ?
Is -30 with ice worse than +50 + without water ? |
