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The past 200 years, during which ever increasing numbers of Sapiens have obtained their daily bread as urban labourers and office workers, and the preceding 10,000 years, during which most Sapiens lived as farmers and herders, are the blink of an eye compared to the tens of thousands of years during which our ancestors hunted and gathered.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Daan van Hulsen
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Where once hoopers and wainwrights and seamstresses saw themselves as heirs to a proud tradition, each with its secret knowledge, the new bureaucratically organized corporations and their “scientific management” sought as far as possible to literally turn workers into extensions of the machinery, their every move predetermined by someone else.
David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Learning about the lives of hunter-gatherers confirms a suspicion that our modern lives are fundamentally at odds with human nature, that we have lost some kind of primordial freedom. […]
‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See more
‘A fair case can be made that hunters often work much less than we do, and rather than a grind the food quest is intermittent, leisure is abundant, and there is mo... See more
Feeling Proud, Feeling Embarrassed: Experiences of Low-income Women with Crowd Work
The document explores the experiences of low-income women in India engaging with crowd work platforms and examines the challenges and opportunities they face.
adityavashistha.comFriedman Benda
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Au XIXe siècle, l’anthropologue suisse Johann Jakob Bachofen prit cette entité archétypale pour une réalité historique objective. Il suggéra que l’humanité avait franchi tout au long de son histoire une succession d’étapes de développement.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
Given the powers of emergence, large human giants would be forces to reckon with. But unlike ants, humans are more than just cells in competing giants—they’re competing individuals too. So as tribes grew in size, the benefits of strength and capability would be accompanied by the cost of increasing instability. A human tribe is held together by wea... See more
Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
Whenever human beings sought to change their way of life or their surroundings, by barricading a prehistoric cave against predators or modifying the head of a spear, they acted as designers, but did so instinctively.