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It's a typical colonial take on agriculture. People flourished without it but we seem to be stuck with revisionist history around the topic.

People also seem to think hunter-gatherers were always struggling, and while it did happen, they seem to miss that there are still billions of people lacking food security because agriculture isn't as easy or prolific as we tend to believe. It's really hard, especially in certain parts of the world.

Oh well, these biases permeate everything. I have plenty of them too.



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