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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Benefits of a Sexual Division of Labour Over a Food
Men hunt and women gather in hunter gatherer societies. Some people think this is te sexest view, you know, that i am saying, you know, a woman's place is digging. A man's places out hunting. But i think it's just that, unlike other species, we really did invent this really useful distinction whereby you got the best of both worlds. You got the protein from hunting, but you got the reliability of food from gathering. So on the whole, you didn't go hungry. It was a difficult thing for women to do when they had small, dependent kids and things like that. And you can sort of see an echo in it to day that far
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