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I really doubt that. Choose to work 40 hrs? There are a few people who are lucky enough whose work is their hobby, and who feel happy doing it, but mostly, wor
by RogtamBar 11y ago
I really doubt that. Choose to work 40 hrs?
There are a few people who are lucky enough whose work is their hobby, and who feel happy doing it, but mostly, work is draining and stressful. And I don't mean physically draining.
I'm convinced the 'Fall from Eden' story was inspired by the invention of agriculture. Suddenly, people had to work a lot more (hunter-gatherers typically work 4-5 hours a day). Only the aristocracy inherited the privilege of having a lot of leisure time and being able to hunt(barring the US, hunting is extremely restricted).
Nutrition got worse, it took millenia of improvement till skeletons of farmers started to look as well-fed as those of hunter gatherers.
And of course proximity to farm animals and greater population introduced all those nice pathogens: tuberculosis, smallpox, flu...
- Joeri 11y agoThe evolution of light skin and ability to digest cow milk also happened due to the nutritional deficiencies of the agricultural lifestyle. Still, the benefit of being able to build a permanent home must have been strong for people to make the switch.
- theguywith 11y agoThat's a remarkable explanation for the myth.
- talktime 11y agoI find it convincing too. Check out the 'Big History' lecture series. Particularly the lecture on the transition to agriculture. I was inclined to think that humans transitioned to agriculture as soon as it was 'invented'. But the lecture suggests that humans knew perfectly well how to farm long before, but didn't because it seemed like too much hard work. We didn't transition until forced to by climatic conditions.