• fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The idea that farming lead to more complex governments and consequently, greater inequality might be flawed. I recommend the book " The Dawn of Everything", which challenges this assumption.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It does make a lot of sense though.

      It must be hard to form any society if all you do is hunt and gather and have no meaningful surplus.

      Also I wouldn’t say that it’s a problem with inequality even if technically true. Society, centralization and teamwork of humanity has benefited our species immensely. I think that’s more important than “well technically it might be more inequality”.

      Inequality is absolutely bad but we can’t simply ignore everything else that happened since.

      • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Just because something makes sense doesn’t make it true. That is why I included the source which argues the point. Also, I am saying it might not be true. Honestly, I would more than happy to find a way to organise a govt that doesn’t involve trusting politicians or bureaucrats or dictators. The best place to find would be in the past, when the human societies might have experimented with ways to organise a govt.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Just because something makes sense doesn’t make it true. That is why I included the source which argues the point. Also, I am saying it might not be true.

          Am not saying you are wrong or right, just that the commonly accepted theory makes a lot of sense.

          • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            3 days ago

            Yes, it does make a lot of sense. Though, I will be happy if it gets proven wrong.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      3 days ago

      All do is plant things on land that could be used to create perfectly good soulless housing estates, and a Lidl.

      • casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        All farmers know is receive subsidy, complain, use horrible pesticide that doesn’t work, and vote conservative. Fuck farmers.

  • krashmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I like that they chose microplastics and credit scores as the indicators of a failing system. I’m not entirely sure why but they seem more fitting than just about anything else despite the fact that they’re probably not the issues one would point to as the biggest problems we face. They feel relatively bland and yet overwhelming at the same time.