My favorite thing about corporate dudes like Bloomberg is they think every subject that isn't math or computers is a made up, trivially easy pseudoscience, then you check out what books they read and it's like "The Handshake Factor: 6 Secrets of Business Success Via Grip Science"https://twitter.com/NYBackpacker/status/1228518467776761856 …
He does, and he is just as clearly talking about pre-industrial farming. Maybe we don't have enough context from this brief viral clip!
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So why not attack the stuff he says in an intellectually more honest way?
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Pre-industrial agriculturalists are responsible for astronomy, engineering and mathematics, though, so that would be an asinine point. Pre-industrial agriculturalists in Oman made Aflaj that stretched dozens of miles and were engineered to 10ths of a degree, for example.
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Calendars? Tracking the motion of the planets? Tracking seasons? Figuring out how to move huge amounts of water with precision? Domesticating animals? Selectively breeding plants? Precisely measuring angles? On and on and on - it was all pre-industrial agticulturalists.
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