Although, gradually, all over the world people chose that lifestyle rather than ...

bryanlarsen · 2025-10-08T12:53:55 1759928035

Chose is a little strong. They were forced into it because agricultural societies could field armies orders of magnitude larger than hunter/gatherers.

It's telling that the nobles of agricultural societies generally still hunted, and often reserved that privilege.

bonoboTP · 2025-10-08T11:25:44 1759922744

Exactly, and similarly people may adopt AI too, whether they like the aesthetics or not.

bregma · 2025-10-08T12:16:00 1759925760

Mostly because if you settled down a tilled a field of barley you had a reliable source of beer. Finding beer in the wild was and still is an almost certain failure.

The roots of global civilization are brown and frothy.

sgt101 · 2025-10-08T17:38:58 1759945138

So what you're telling me is that I am genetically predisposed to brew and drink beer?

Explains a lot.

Explains it to my satisfaction!