About ten thousand years ago people who had been living in the Fertile Crescent for tens of thousands of years began to live a new way, the way I’ve called the Taker way.” “I see that.” “They didn’t begin to live a new way because they were starving, because, as I’ve said, starving people don’t invent lifestyles any more than people falling out of airplanes invent parachutes. And their new way to live wasn’t adopted because it was so pleasant that it was just an inevitable next step forward. What these founders of our culture fundamentally invented for us was the notion of work. They developed
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