But one can also imagine—easily imagine—hunters and shepherds watching men plow fields in the hot sun and thinking that such a life was a kind of servitude, and that it was better to risk starving in the mountains than to eat well on the plains. “Nomadic movement of all types… is apparently not seen as a burdensome necessity but positively as something healthy and desirable in itself,” writes anthropologist James Woodburn of hunter-gatherers. “Most important… is the way that such arrangements are subversive for the development of authority. Individuals are not bound to fixed areas… They are
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I wonder what the modern equivalent is? Surveillance in exchange for the benefits of automation vs those who insist on privacy?
