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Improvements or just new ways to be occupied and more work? It seems life without agriculture and the like was way simpler and chilled.

• ioseph 2mo ago
  Until winter.
  • satvikpendem 2mo ago
    Humans have been storing food for winter for hundreds of thousands of years before agriculture and the invention of writing, you think they all died off or something? People whose crops failed instead were more heavily affected in winter than hunter gatherers.
    • ioseph 2mo ago
      Of course, but the surpluses made possible by agriculture meant occasional starvation became a much rarer event
      • satvikpendem 2mo ago
        No, people starved way more with farming than with hunting and gathering. All in all you're under very severe misconceptions as to how farmers and hunter gatherers lived which is not supported by the evidence. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3917328/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3917328/
        • lelanthran 2mo ago
          That study controls only for habitat quality, which I feel is not really relevant: hunter-gatherers are, by definition alone, nomadic. They move to where the food is! IOW, hunter-gatherers follow the best habitat, so controlling for habitat is always going to have the conclusion this paper reached. I'd be very interested in other studies that support this conclusion; after all, that's how science works - a single study proves nothing if many studies conclude the opposite.