• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    18 hours ago

    There isn’t enough food in nature to support the population. We need agriculture so people are going to have to work to provide food. That’s not free.

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 hours ago

      Also even if our whole population could be sustained by hunting and gathering alone, that’s still a shitton of work. Don’t come at me about that before you’ve spent 5 hours in the woods crouching over bilberry bushes getting stabbed by twigs and stung by mosquitoes to earn less than a liter of berries.

    • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      lucky we’ve been doing this woke agriculture thing for a few thousand years and have gotten rather competent at it.

      • stickly@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        That doesn’t mean the work doesn’t exist. If nobody went out of their way to do the undesirable and menial labor involved with mass agriculture then we’d all die. If you’re not in a tiny, hunter-gatherer proto-society then you really do have to put in work to live. It’s just our modern distribution of labor and reward that’s fucked.