alt Hacker NewsHistorians will tell you that in many ways, agriculture was the worst thing that ever happened to humanity. Agriculture meant hard, back-breaking, monotonous labor; it meant pests and disease due to population concentration; it meant a bland diet that did fully meet nutritional requirements; it meant social hierarchies of kings and priests. But societies that did not adopt agriculture were outcompeted and eventually destroyed by those that did.
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bena • today at 3:04 PM
Historians. Well, one. Well, he's not a historian. He's a biochemist and physiologist who has studied some anthropology.
It's Jared Diamond. That's who says agriculture was the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.
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Follow this reasoning to its conclusion: once humans are no longer part of the most efficient military-industrial "meta build", states that keep them alive will be outcompeted and eventually destroyed by those that do not.