Poll: what would you label the world's oldest profession in your version of the origin myth of humanity?
(Not counting basic sustenance work like hunting/farming/tool-making as professions)
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I actually wonder under what conditions labour can divide into distinct professions, in which case I vote shaman.
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Labor is interestingly fungible even when the activities are varied. I think a profession emerges when work makes you as much as you make work. That generally means second-order tool-making I think. Shaping other humans is one kind. Making tools to make tools is another.
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HOW is performance artist the least voted.
"If you want to stay alive, make them laugh" has got to be the oldest advice in humanity. And boredom has to be older than paying for anything else.
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"I need to eat."
"Sex for food?"
"Yeah ok."
"Wait, don't do that!"
"Why not?"
"Because... the gods!"
<some 3rd guy>
"Whoa, I should paint this."








