**πΎ From Fire to Finance: The 3 Revolutions That Shaped Human Work**
Nobody knows exactly *why* our ancestors traded the freedom of foraging for the toil of farming β but when they did, the world changed forever. π₯
1οΈβ£ **Fire: The First Leap**
The ability to control fire wasnβt just survival β it was the birth of *leisure*. Suddenly, humans could extract more energy from food, freeing up time and reshaping life itself.
2οΈβ£ **Farming: The Age of Debt & Discipline**
Agriculture required future-thinking, debt, and discipline. You worked the land β or starved. It introduced concepts of property, labor, and reward. Even our word "capital" comes from "cattle" β because cows were our first real assets. π
3οΈβ£ **Cities: The Creative Explosion**
As cities rose, only a minority farmed. The rest? They turned surplus into *art, trade, and identity*. From butchers to potters, people built lives around work and community β creating pockets of the modern world long before our time. ποΈ
π§ But today, in our high-tech, automated age, this ancient system is cracking. Productivity is soaring β yet wealth is *deeply unequal*. The American Dream? Slipping away for most. The new challenge: to *engineer* a fairer system that suits the world we've actually built. π οΈπ
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