Nicholas Wade

The women wanted to have their children with them during the day.

The families were reconstituted.

the kibbutzim had to go through a massive rebuilding program to build apartments instead of these communal living arrangements.

And they also had to drop the equal pay system because when they were founded, Israel was quite a poor economy and it didn't really matter what wages were outside the kibbutzim, they weren't much better.

But as Israel grew more prosperous, people started leaving the kibbutzim for much better paying jobs.

So pay differentials were reinstituted, and the kibbutzim, which had been in a very bad way, then started to get more prosperous.

So the interest of the whole experiment was that this was a pure test of socialism.

Defenders of socialists often say, well, it's never really been tried, meaning that the communist governments that operated it were so corrupt and inefficient, that wasn't a fair test.

But the kibbutzim were a fair test.

It was voluntarily entered into, and it was voluntarily rejected when people saw it simply didn't work.

Yeah, so the root of that is that

men had to compete very hard to survive.

So in early societies, it wasn't sort of one man, one woman.

It was the chief guy got most of the wives, and many men were left without a wife at all.

So unless you competed like hell, you had no chance of having a family and leaving any descendants.

So your Darwinian fitness was zero.

And we are the descendants of the men who

survived this system by being highly competitive with each other for women.

Then they had to turn around and be very cooperative with the other men in their society for the society's defense.

Right, which is what happened if you failed to defend your country, the men would be killed and the women, and the children as well sometimes, and the women would become the property of the conquerors.