Wow - I'm not a professional gambler, but I am truly underwhelmed by the answers (so far) from those who apparently are -- make babies and stay alive??!! Come on! Are professional gamblers really cut from a cloth that is so self-centered that they would pretty much reject the "everyone pitch in" values of this society, where they will spend the rest of their lives??
If so, the next time you get sick there, don't expect their help to get healthy again -- and in the meantime, hope that they don't just put you out on your own, since you clearly are not even trying to pitch in -- and then you likely would not survive without the natives' skill and knowledge set.
I hope that everyone would observe and see what the values and needs of such a society are, and then try to use their knowledge, however basic, of modern technology to introduce them to very basic things to make their life better -- perhaps something in the area of sewage, water transport, health care (eg, do they know about basic hygiene / hand-washing, etc) -- certainly with a little observation, we of modern times have some knowledge that can improve the lives of this group.
--BG
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> 5.1. What would you do?
> Date: Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:59 pm ((PDT))
>
> Imagine you are shipwrecked on a desert isle at roughly the
> stone age technological level of Polynesian islands before
> the Spanish found them. The natives nurse you back to health
> and take excellent care of you. Even though they haven't
> asked you for anything in return, it is quite apparent that
> everyone in their community pitches in for the common good.
>
> What do you do to contribute and repay them for saving your
> life and all their kindness?
>
> You have only the knowledge in your head and your physical
> capabilities to draw from.
