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Nearly all misery in the modern world is caused by the invention of agriculture.
by cpach 5y ago
Nearly all misery in the modern world is caused by the invention of agriculture.
- armchairhacker 5y agoIf humans never invented agriculture we might still be living as hunter-gatherers. So our problems would mainly be getting food, shelter, preventing injury, and infection - problems most people don’t face today. Jobs, boredom, pollution, rare diseases - hunter-gatherers don’t deal with these. So you’re right, nearly all misery is caused by agriculture. Except, not everything. We still deal with inferiority, finding mates, unwanted sexual advances. Pride is an issue today and it has been an issue before we were even humans.
- leobg 5y agoProbably true. But agriculture is what made possible the explosion of population growth. One result of which is you and me. So if agriculture brought about misery, our existence is part of it. In other words: Without agriculture, we wouldn’t be less miserable. We just would not be, period.
- cpach 5y agoI agree! And for the record: I don’t believe it’s possible, or desirable, to go back to the hunter-gatherer era. As Trevor Horn would have it: “We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far”
- rufus_foreman 5y agoThat is pretty contrarian, I thought the cause was man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
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