Stage 2: Ownership
Some families began to declare ownership of hydrogen-bonded materials.
When a section of land was particularly moist or sweet-smelling, they might fight over it.
When one animal was particularly helpful in cultivating soil or in defending property, they might trap it.
Unfortunately, too, when some powerful families wanted to build tools, shelters, or shrines much larger than themselves, requiring more hydrogen-bonded energy, more physical exertion, more human work than they could access during the duration of their own life cycles, they might enslave others.
Most monuments from the era of early society were built on the backs of slaves.
In free societies, laborers offer their own hydrogen-bonded energy in exchange for barter or currency, according to the cultural laws of a community.
Workers of all kinds, therefore, are walking banks of hydrogen bond potential, energy transport systems, allowing the intentions of any individual to be magnified beyond the limitations of a single body.
