alt Hacker News“Trapped” in a life that meant women didn’t have to regularly murder their children.
Such nonsense the idea that farming was a trap. I think it was Sapiens that propagated this myth in recent times.
“Trapped” in a life that meant women didn’t have to regularly murder their children.
Such nonsense the idea that farming was a trap. I think it was Sapiens that propagated this myth in recent times.
I think there’s a version of the Malthusian trap that has explanatory merit - the idea that as population increased, you got diminishing returns from more people farming the same land. Population would therefore increase until famine, after which there would be good times until the cycle repeated. This cycle was broken by the industrial revolution.