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and where did that bring you? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They knew. Agriculture is what created the whole concept of "work".

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I would argue the opposite; that semi-agricultural societies --pre-columbian California is a good example-- had no way of knowing where an increasing reliance on predictable harvests would eventually take them.