Ryan North

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    We Are Become Farmers
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    Table 1: A table any human should be embarrassed to even be in the same room with
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    assuming you are multilingual or feeling ambitious) choosing a language that is not English. That prevents you from accidentally teaching others how to read this text, which may be something worth considering,
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    mathematics is actually built on a foundation of things we can’t prove but assume are true. We call them “axioms,” and we think they’re safe assumptions, but at the end of the day, they remain beliefs we cannot prove. Axioms include ideas like “2 + 1 gives the same result as 1 + 2” and “if
    a equals b, and if b equals c, then a equals c.”
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    by this logic, 1/0 should equal negative infinity.

    But a number can’t be equal to infinity and negative infinity at the same time.
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    Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others.
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    Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others. With an economy comes specialization: instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that. A hunter and gatherer
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    With an economy comes specialization: instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that. A hunter and gatherer
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    instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that.

    See, that would be true if fucking capitalism didnt exist. But it does so most of us are stuck with tasks we dont actually enjoy.

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