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Fascinating. I feel like every year or so a new book is written along the topic of something like this though: Fish, Salt, Grain, Money, Paper, etc and how that
by zackabaker 9y ago
Fascinating. I feel like every year or so a new book is written along the topic of something like this though: Fish, Salt, Grain, Money, Paper, etc and how that thing was responsible for modern civilization. I commend the author for bringing this idea to the forefront but its likely disingenuous to think that Fish and Fishing has as the author says, "created the modern world" more so than any of these other things.
- HaoZeke 9y agoStill makes for a fascinating read... Plus eventually we'd be able to run ml on the articles to reach a concensus maybe xD
- whatshisface 9y agoI'd speculate that all modern humans were capable of forming civilizations, and like a supercooled fluid would crystalize into one around any workable nucleation site.
- eru 9y agoIf they wanted to. Agriculture has been one of the worst changes for average quality of life.