If you were a hunter-gatherer, would you support the invention of agriculture, which introduces work (the Greek word for work, ponos, has the same root as the Latin poena, sorrow) for the first time in history (and it was mostly back-breaking labor), provides us with a lower-quality diet, gives rise to wars over the surplus food (it triggered the birth of the professional army), produces deadly infectious diseases (including malaria, probably the single greatest human killer), and institutionalizes slavery and serfdom on a large scale?
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