We can infer that Sahlins's main goal in writing his essay was to:
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The passage states that the main point of Sahlin's essay was to provide a 'conceptual challenge to contemporary economic life and bourgeois individualism'. The essay 'served a philosophical and political project, a thought experiment and stimulus to the imagination of possibilities' that showed that radical alternatives to the readers' lives really exist. From this we infer that Sahlins' main goal in writing his essay was to hold a mirror to the capitalist acquisitive society and to give examples of other communities that have chosen successfully to be non-materialistic. Option C is the correct choice.
Option A is incorrect. The passage does not say that foragers had an 'egalitarian' society. Nor does the essay, according to the passage, state that we have 'progressively degenerated' into materialism.
Option B implies that, according to Sahlins' essay, economic progress had egalitarian origins. This is incorrect.
The passage states that the title of Sahlins' essay is a 'nod toward' Galbraith's work. That is, Sahlin is in agreement with Galbraith. So, option D is also incorrect.
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