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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)
  • Prostitute
    45.3%
  • Priest
    26.4%
  • Bard/cave-painter
    17.6%
  • Performing artist
    10.6%
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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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