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528. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life is Meaningless and Amazing

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The Agricultural Revolution Was History's Biggest Fraud

Sapien: We're taught to celebrate the agricultural revolution, not to think of it as being a fraud. He says farmers were more in danger of famine than hunter-gatherers because they relied on a much more narrow economic base. Sapien: The most clueless people for understanding how we are about our own times is ourselves.

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