Comment by Flughoernchen@feddit.de on and where did that bring you?

Farming basically invented work and employment. They should have realized something was not right about that back then.

It invented having a relatively reliable food surplus.

I wish I could make all these neoprimitives actually live the life for a week so they shut up forever about it.

Practically every single tribe on the planet decided that the odds for farming was better than rolling the dice every year.

I think it’s more likely that it was better odds, and those that continued nomadic life died off at a much higher rate.

I think both of you are not considering two major aspects:

Farming can feed more people on a given fertile area than hunting and gathering can.

Farming is area exclusive, e.g. there is a set amount of people farming in one area and considering this area to be theirs, excluding everyone else from usage.

It is very much possible, that in terms of providing food for the existing population both are equally viable. But with farming you could create larger more densely packed populations, which in turn provided means to exclude others by force. So while hunting and gathering was not necessarily a bad way of life, it did not allow for imperialism and was subsequently diminished by the imperialists.

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about

Man’s never heard of the Mongols, Turks, Huns, etc etc etc.

Whose lifestyles only worked because they could trade for food and goods from farming communities btw

Hunting and gathering wasn’t peace and love. There were wars and resources access problems already. Farming is simply much more efficient. Hunting can only feed people until you reach the natural reproduction of the animals. Same for gathering and plants. Domestication and farming is the process of increasing the volume of food you can have access too. Thus you can feed more people more reliably and with less space.

Human population on earth is directly linked to food access.

I totally agree. Thats why i made the argument “for an existing population”. In order to support a growing population changing to farming was the right choice. But not all populations had the ambition or necessity to grow, as we see with many indigenous people that survived quite well until being met with expanding settler societies.

So hunting and gathering wasnt necessarily an inferior lifestyle in terms of running a stable society. Qnd in the long haul it is very much possible that humanities growth leads to its downfall so severely, that a nomadic lifestyle will reemerge as it tends to be more environmentally sustainable.

So while hunting and gathering was not necessarily a bad way of life, it did not allow for imperialism and was subsequently diminished by the imperialists.

Have you seen nowadays how they fish? They destroy whole huge areas leaving no fish behind. This is a type of imperialism. The problem is capitalism in its nature

And for that kind of fishing you need large vessels, built in stationary warfts, using stationary ports. The materials are made in stationary complex apparatusses to extract and shape metals from ore and the ore is mined in stationary mines.

All of this is only possible as a result of settling

Farming is like a memetic prion disease. Every other food production method it touches turns into farming.

That and hunter-gatherer tribes tend to get genocided.

I wish I could get them to come to an actual farm and realize we aren’t trying to kill them or ruin the world.

We have more food than we know what to do with and people are still starving. Growing your own food provides a reward someone like you not only can’t experience, but if you did you wouldn’t be able to understand it.

What the fuck are you babbling about?

Right, because hunting and gathering isn’t work. People just got food into their mouths doing nothing - like wild animals.

There’s a difference between working for your own and your communities good and working for someone else while not being allowed to keep your (fair share of) product/profit.

That’s not how farming started though. They started farming so that they can feed themselves and their community. It eventually devolved into that, but it’s not how it started.

This difference is capitalism vs about anything else

Early farming would have been communally owned land. But hunter gatherer life was not remotely as relaxed as dudes on yhe Internet would make it seem

I mean an-prim is like the dumbest ideology ever unless you actually think 50+% infant mortality and everyone who needs glasses being unable to survive is cool.

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