Fact that interest in religion declines as societies get rich suggests main gain from religion is to help deal with stressful situations that happen a lot more to the poor.
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so if Robin is looking at a slice through N space where the axis is wealth, he might see that at THIS point on the membrane, marginal wealth decreases religiosity and, yes, here on the curve, the marginal value of religion is poverty anxiety reduction
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but perhaps a different slice through the state space, comparing two cultures of equal wealth but different amounts of foreign raiders and warlords, we might find that the marginal value of religion is small unit cohesion
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