Re: [TML]Request David Jaques-Watson (31 Jul 2014 01:18 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Knapp (31 Jul 2014 05:54 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Kelly St. Clair (31 Jul 2014 06:38 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Phil Pugliese (31 Jul 2014 15:42 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Tim (31 Jul 2014 10:59 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Bruce Johnson (31 Jul 2014 16:16 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Knapp (02 Aug 2014 00:28 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request shadow@xxxxxx (03 Aug 2014 18:52 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Rupert Boleyn (04 Aug 2014 00:48 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Kelly St. Clair (04 Aug 2014 00:59 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Rupert Boleyn (04 Aug 2014 01:58 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Knapp (04 Aug 2014 06:28 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Richard Aiken (04 Aug 2014 11:04 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Rupert Boleyn (04 Aug 2014 11:22 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Knapp (04 Aug 2014 17:44 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Phil Pugliese (04 Aug 2014 14:35 UTC)
Re: [TML]Request Kurt Feltenberger (31 Jul 2014 12:14 UTC)

Re: [TML]Request Kelly St. Clair 04 Aug 2014 00:59 UTC

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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