1Agriculture is a fairly recent human invention, and in many ways it was one of
2the great stupid moves of all time. Huntergatherers have thousands of wild
3sources of food to subsist on. Agriculture changed that all, generating an
4overwhelming reliance on a few dozen domesticated food sources, making you
5extremely vulnerable to the next famine, the next locust infestation, the next
6potato blight. Agriculture allowed for stockpiling of surplus resources and thus,
7inevitably, the unequal stockpiling of them stratification of society and
8the invention of classes. Thus, it allowed for the invention of poverty. I think
9that the punch line of the primatehuman difference is that when humans
10invented poverty, they came up with a way of subjugating the lowranking like
11nothing ever seen before in the primate world.
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