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The Fundamental Human Relationship with Work

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The Importance of Farming

When you become a farmer, you in effect take responsibility for that production of food. And the critical thing with farming is that farming requires a lot of work before you get any return. For hunter gatherers, when times were good, these were times to relax the most. When the seasons are good, that's when you work the hardest and maintain surplices. The threat of scarcity existed everywhere so people started to work very hard to accumulate and protect surplices....

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