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I agree but I’d like to add that people are definitely falling for PR, people are always falling for PR or no one would bother with PR

Yeah pretty much, it’s a pretty tough to pinpoint what work actually is without paid labour.

I mostly agree, but the whole worked only 15 hours a week stat is almost certainly not correct. It came from a paper that only counted time outside of camp as work, so time spent i…

"Without any external pressure, multiple peoples concluded that settling and eating grass was preferable to being nomads." Portraying it as an individual choice is inaccurate. The …

I have had an incredibly similar experience, including falling back into being convinced I was in a 'loop' when my mind was tired or on psychedelics. I've always found it interesti…

??? I haven’t seen the narrative that Ukraine is winning the war for at least 2 years. You should maybe choose better news sources, there’s a huge amount of very accurate reporting…

To be pedantic, it’s definitionally not reading. You listened to the book, you didn’t read it. There’s just an odd legitimacy associated specifically with reading - that people wan…

That’s quite a controversial figure actually. The original paper that popularised this was the ‘Original affluent society’ paper by Marshall Sahlins. It marked a big shift away fro…

Adam Smith is often used as symbol of laissez-faire capitalism but was explicitly a proponent for regulation in situations where the market failed, such as this one imagine. What y…

I understand your point but all the resources and material goods in the world don’t matter if you can’t access them. > Indeed, we don’t have the technology to save people from them…

The poorest? So the homeless opiate addict living under a city bypass is better off than King Henry VIII? Someone should tell them.