Migrations and Intensification: Crash Course Big History #7
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Anna
I know this is a super old video but my opinion of a perfect society is technically communist I think? Everyone is equal, as long as you are able to contribute to society in some way you shouldnt have to struggle to survive. You grow up, recieve free training if you want to go to a specialized field, you take care of those who took care of you when they're too old to. For example If a farmer gets sick a dr helps you no charge, if a machine breaks down on your farm it's fixed for free, in return you produce as much food as you're able which supports them. Everyone gets their basic needs met + a salary dependent on their work. For example a dr might get a bigger living space or more money they can use to buy nonessential items. The problem imo is that we can't be trusted to set up a system like this and there will always be people who will try to abuse it and be selfish taking more than they need.
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I know this is a super old video but my opinion of a perfect society is technically communist I think? Everyone is equal, as long as you are able to contribute to society in some way you shouldnt have to struggle to survive. You grow up, recieve free training if you want to go to a specialized field, you take care of those who took care of you when they're too old to. For example If a farmer gets sick a dr helps you no charge, if a machine breaks down on your farm it's fixed for free, in return you produce as much food as you're able which supports them. Everyone gets their basic needs met + a salary dependent on their work. For example a dr might get a bigger living space or more money they can use to buy nonessential items. The problem imo is that we can't be trusted to set up a system like this and there will always be people who will try to abuse it and be selfish taking more than they need.
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Georg
9: 02
What if we add a major tweak in the above-referenced:
-. the quest for sufficient matter and energy not to survive and reproduce but merely -to expand one's power and strength-. Has been the overriding theme-?
Like where is the strive to -survive and reproduce- in the Nanjing Massacre? Or perhaps in Louis' 14th policy that warfare was the pivot point of everything? Or in our deep urge to become an interplanetary species (the idea of survival in this sense seems petty as its hard for us to think of such remote associations. Further, take our indifference to global warming as a counterargument? Or in the scientific impulse? Does the joy of research stem from a drive to survive and reproduce? Or a rather a drive to expand and conquer the unknown?
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9: 02
What if we add a major tweak in the above-referenced:
-. the quest for sufficient matter and energy not to survive and reproduce but merely -to expand one's power and strength-. Has been the overriding theme-?
Like where is the strive to -survive and reproduce- in the Nanjing Massacre? Or perhaps in Louis' 14th policy that warfare was the pivot point of everything? Or in our deep urge to become an interplanetary species (the idea of survival in this sense seems petty as its hard for us to think of such remote associations. Further, take our indifference to global warming as a counterargument? Or in the scientific impulse? Does the joy of research stem from a drive to survive and reproduce? Or a rather a drive to expand and conquer the unknown?
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rogermwilcox
Studies have shown that, although hunter-gatherers would only spend 6-ish hours a day hunting and gathering, they would spend considerably more time processing what was gathered than agrarian societies. Domesticated crops are selected for, in part, by how easy they are to make edible. It takes a lot more time to process (say) wild acorns than it does to process domesticated wheat.
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Studies have shown that, although hunter-gatherers would only spend 6-ish hours a day hunting and gathering, they would spend considerably more time processing what was gathered than agrarian societies. Domesticated crops are selected for, in part, by how easy they are to make edible. It takes a lot more time to process (say) wild acorns than it does to process domesticated wheat.
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david
nice synopsis i am practicing buddhist working on a theory of capitalisms next transformation. I posit that capitalism. often misaligned because folks tend to run of out of expletives and thoughtful words. I tend to see capitalism as a ubiquitous -objective means of communication as developed by humans and is ubiquitously accepted by all 7 billion people world wide.
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nice synopsis i am practicing buddhist working on a theory of capitalisms next transformation. I posit that capitalism. often misaligned because folks tend to run of out of expletives and thoughtful words. I tend to see capitalism as a ubiquitous -objective means of communication as developed by humans and is ubiquitously accepted by all 7 billion people world wide.
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Ross
Is it conceivable or any evidence that the humans dwelling in Caves 1st were originally dominant but eventually conquered by agrarians?
The -weaker-/disadvantaged left out set of people resorted to open prairie dwelling, eventually surpassed the -stronger- cave dwellers and conquered them?
Who else likes my hypothesis?
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Is it conceivable or any evidence that the humans dwelling in Caves 1st were originally dominant but eventually conquered by agrarians?
The -weaker-/disadvantaged left out set of people resorted to open prairie dwelling, eventually surpassed the -stronger- cave dwellers and conquered them?
Who else likes my hypothesis?
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Tom
-It's very difficult for me to imagine a world in which humans will say 'You know what? If the earth can only support 6 - 8 million foragers, then there should only be 6 - 8 million of us-
-Thanos has entered the discussion-
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-It's very difficult for me to imagine a world in which humans will say 'You know what? If the earth can only support 6 - 8 million foragers, then there should only be 6 - 8 million of us-
-Thanos has entered the discussion-
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Georg
1: 15
The hypothesis of mount Toba's eruption significantly reducing human population has been seriously doubted since the time this video was published.
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1: 15
The hypothesis of mount Toba's eruption significantly reducing human population has been seriously doubted since the time this video was published.
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Gerold
H&J imply the Mt. Toba bottleneck is a sure thing. The wiki page notes a lot of controversy about that. Not everyone agrees. Any consensus on this?
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H&J imply the Mt. Toba bottleneck is a sure thing. The wiki page notes a lot of controversy about that. Not everyone agrees. Any consensus on this?
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Jos-phe
Me watching this in 2014: Neat
Me watching this in 2019: Ugh goddamnit that sticker on his laptop is gonna start an incel flame war
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Me watching this in 2014: Neat
Me watching this in 2019: Ugh goddamnit that sticker on his laptop is gonna start an incel flame war
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Nicholas
Quick question, was it Mount Tove that reduced the population to a few thousand? Hard to understand without good speakers/headphones
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Quick question, was it Mount Tove that reduced the population to a few thousand? Hard to understand without good speakers/headphones
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