Re: The mistake of agriculture (was: evolution and diet)

From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 08:55:14 MDT

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    "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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