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In every complex societal collapse prior to the present day, subsistence agriculture was either the most common occupation or well-known to a substantial portio
by newaccount2021 4y ago
In every complex societal collapse prior to the present day, subsistence agriculture was either the most common occupation or well-known to a substantial portion of the population.
I caution against turning doomerism into an intellectual fetish - unlike past societies, we don't know how to feed ourselves without "the system".
- peteradio 4y agoIs the implication that common people had an obvious choice to collapse into, now we don't so we kind of can't?
- Mezzie 4y agoIt's more that 'wandering off into the wild and doing your own thing until society settles down/it being worth it to try again' was an option. Now we're at population levels that require some amount of technological complexity to maintain and therefore a certain level of complex organization.
- yomkippur 4y agoyes but that was because the lower class was largely responsible for food generation. today they are responsible for so much more. Technology, especially hi-tech contributes to our current complexity.