Paleo advocates and peddlers of Noble Savage mythology lament agriculture and the modern era without considering the wellbeing of millions https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/851981340681674752 …
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I stopped reading Sapiens immediately when I hit that chestnut about the agricultural revolution being a bad deal.
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It's about total vs avg utility. Nobles in Sumeria lived better than gatherers, but a lot of unhappy farmers were born. And civilization.
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IMO the *only* argument (which I don't buy) for the ag revolution being bad is that it ended up giving us capacity to end humanity
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