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[โ€“] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Agricolture.
It's what brought us working together in the first place, shifting our habits from nomadic to sedentary and started the concept of civilization.

When scarcity should have died, but shitters divided the people for power and wealth.

[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say the plow. Agriculture means your tribe get to spend less time hunting and gathering, but the plow means your tribe get a chance to become an empire

In this case I'm taking the word "greatest" more as "biggest/most impactful" and not necessarily "most good" but also I'm no anarcho-primitivist, idk...

[โ€“] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

In this case I'm taking the word "greatest" more as "biggest/most impactful" and not necessarily "most good"

Yeah that's what I meant, I agree with the topic of "it might be what started workers exploitation", but what I'm talking about is "it's an invention/discovery that was so powerful to shift the natural behaviour of a species". We're not even talking about antropology now, it's an etological impact and there haven't been many others in our history