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Scarfleece
11y ago
There are plenty of talented, productive people who aren't self-starters. Your company will be missing out on them. You can easily say they're the wrong people, but you could also say you're the wrong leader. Rant: Not everyo
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Scarfleece
11y ago
You probably think you're doing women a favour with this nitpicky attitude, but it only trivializes the focus of the issues to the wording choice of a single fucking person. Let the little things slide.
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Scarfleece
11y ago
If you're an alcoholic, you don't work as a wine taste tester, and you certainly don't keep an infinitely-replenishing liquor cabinet at home.
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Scarfleece
11y ago
"Wanting enough food" is not the same as "always wanting more".
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Scarfleece
11y ago
Just because someone changed their means of obtaining food doesn't mean they did it out of an unquenchable thirst for more. It's that simple.
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Scarfleece
11y ago
Same irrational presumption as the other guy, see my response. I would also like to point out that studies show early agricultural societies had notably worse health than hunter-gatherers. This would make it unlikely that a successful, happ
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Scarfleece
11y ago
You're making the presumption that people adopted agriculture because it "gave them more", when there could be a vast number of other reasons for adopting it. More than likely, the first tribes that started becoming farmers d
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Scarfleece
11y ago
It's human nature to want more. You pulled this out of your ass, and it's nonsense. Any anthropological study will tell you that hunter-gatherers are/were satisfied with what they could get. Anecdotally, there are vas
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Scarfleece
12y ago
Why is there a push for crickets, grinded-up-bug-meatballs and insect flour when there's one that people aren't actually disgusted by -- escargot?