On 8/3/2014 5:48 PM, Rupert Boleyn wrote:

> immobile people tied down by possessions and crops they
> can't up and leave can be forced to pay taxes, to provide labour, and
> this allows specialisation, and once you've started down that road you
> can't really go back.
>
> It takes a very long time before farmers are, on an individual level,
> better off than hunter-gatherers, though a small segment of the
> population has it pretty good from even the earliest days.

And I, for one, am willing to make that tradeoff - even though I'm not
even the top segment (though I may be close, depending on where you
start drawing the curve).  Hunter-gatherers make up stories about the
moon; specialists *go* to it.

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