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THE FIRST BOOK OF SHI-TUGO
Chapter 15
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Shi-Tugo resumes his account of Ammonite customs, describing a communal economy ordered toward eliminating poverty. Their villages resemble Nephite settlements but with humbler dwellings, modestly enlarged as families grow; aged parents typically join the household of their youngest married child. Men, women, and children all labor together, each producing somewhat beyond family need so that surplus is freely given to those who lack.
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Whole villages cooperate in fishing, pottery, wool, wine, and grain, sharing the increase in common. Because all labored for one another rather than self, pride did not take root as it did among the Nephites. Families counseled together regularly, the father or mother presiding, offering sacred incense to the four directions, singing thanksgiving, and inviting the Holy Ghost before deliberating without contention.
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Shi-Tugo judges this order pleasing to the Lord and laments that Nephite preoccupation with finery might have been cured by such practice.
