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>But it’s simply not correct to claim that we’re stuck in the tradeoff our ancestors made when they settled down to farm. I mean we are because if we go back t
by nend 3y ago
>But it’s simply not correct to claim that we’re stuck in the tradeoff our ancestors made when they settled down to farm.
I mean we are because if we go back to hunting/gathering billions of people would die.
The point is that that at the time, farming produced worse nutrition, but despite that we couldn't go back once we started. There's a whole lot of other variables today that obviously prevent us from going back to hunting/gathering.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> if we go back to hunting/gathering billions of people would die And those who survive wouldn’t be much healthier. This isn’t a tradeoff. It’s a net gain. The original tradeoff was a worse but more-stable food supply. Today we can reliably produce nutritious food. No tradeoff.