From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 08:55:14 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> said:
> Let's not forget standing armies. Agriculture enabled people to produce
> more food than they needed to feed themselves alone, enabling the rise of
> a ruling class that subsisted off other people's work and could force them
> to work 16-hour days to feed as many boss-class individuals as possible.
> And of course, the transition to agriculture marks the transition from
> work to which we are adapted, and which we presumably found fulfilling or
> at least tolerable, to "work" in the sense of mental-energy-sapping,
> life-force-draining labor.
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