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Actually, it makes perfectly good sense. There was something on TCSDaily.com talking about an "egalitarian instinct" in these societies. It would make sense that when there was plenty, they would share, but when scarcity becomes a real factor they would assert private property rights. It's just a way of preventing free riding.
I am curious to know whether he had the chance to critique their nuances in their views of property. Is it possible that they might have always asserted property rights in principle, but simply not enforced them because of other cultural factors during good times? That would seem more likely to me, but I'm just guessing and don't even pretend to know the answer to that one.
So the key question is, then: are ideas scarce? I would argue that they are not, in fact, that it is impossible for them to be scarce.