First, I guess, people figured out that they don’t have to spend all day gathering plants to eat. They can bring the seeds home, then plant stuff nearby. That”ll save time.<\/p>\n
But then, they really didn’t need everyone to help gather the food anymore. It was all nearby. Still took a lot of work, but definitely there was less for everyone to do simply to get food on the table.<\/p>\n
So they started to specialize. Whatever free time they had, they gave up in order to do other stuff. Basket-weaver, hole-digger, stone-sharpener, lawyer, priest, electrician, and even writer.<\/p>\n
Stone-sharpeners might not have to raise the food. They’d get food by sharpening stones for people who raised the food. Or they’d give sharp stones to someone who did something for someone who did something for someone who raised the food. And so on.<\/p>\n
One guy can now raise food for lots and lots of people, who can do all kinds of other things. If it weren’t for those first seeds growing near the cave in the old days, then we’d never have mold-inspectors, or rayon manufacturers, or aestheticians. And we’d never have bloggers.<\/p>\n
So someone else built my house and grew my food, which is great. And someone made an iPod, so that I can listen to someone else discuss science while I do the dishes.<\/p>\n
With the radio, then the TV, and even more so with the iPod, we can fill up time when we’re already doing something else. Magazine racks in the bathroom, TVs in the kitchen, and iPods everywhere. If you wanted, you could never have dead time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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