http://www.life.uiuc.edu/ib/454/lecture6.html
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I'd much rather work 2.5 days a week to survive than work 5 days a week 8 hours a day (which I work in the summer).
Excellent. That'll give you plenty of time to make a cane. You'll need one for when you get polio, after all, because nobody ever invented the vaccine.
Agcriculture is more scalable of obtaining food to feed the almost 7 billion people, but when you have a group of under 100 hunting and gathering works just fine.
Nobody contests this. It's true that hunter-gatherer societies can work under those conditions, and your claim that it takes less time to obtain food is probably true under those circumstances. (This isn't entirely obvious, though, since agriculture yields a much higher output per crop which might offset the time taken to plant them.)
The problem is that mankind was only at such low population levels for a very short time. It was a matter of time before the population would become big enough to be able to commit itself to a more scalable method of obtaining food.
So again, I don't really get why you're saying this. It's like you're silently wishing that we were still at the population levels of 100,000 years ago.
I'd rather live a simple life than a life full of work?
Okay, this is getting rather silly. Take a look around you. You've surrounded by walls, a floor and a ceiling. You're typing this on a keyboard, which is connected to a computer, which probably has a monitor too. There's a great likelihood of there being a TV in your vicinity, too. Same for the coffee machine and couch and boiler. Like most people, you probably also have windows made of glass.
You would have none of these things if agriculture never occurred. They were invented and created by people who didn't have to spend 2 and a half days a week barbecuing dandelions. Those 5 days a week you mention come with the ability to make use of the things that were made possible by that extra time. Remember that by asking to cut
your working time in half, you're doing the same for
everybody else.
If you're really that lazy, go get a different job. Or don't get a job at all and live on welfare. Not enough welfare where you live? Move to another country. (Use a plane or boat created by one of those crazy agriculturists.)
My link is that mass agriculuture produced a huge spike in population increase, which caused peoples to become crowded so they had to move, they moved to all areas of the globe taking agriculture with them, thus forcing other indigenous socieities to change their way of life which has had horrible effects.
Which indigenous societies? When did this happen? What were these "horrible effects"? Is there any evidence, mineralized or otherwise, that what you claim is what happened, or are you just projecting the hardships of the Australian Aborigines onto every other nameless culture?
Seriously man. You're not even really thinking this through, are you?
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