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  • DB 🌱💦dbattistella@mstdn.ca
    Jun 30, 2026, 4:59 PM

    The problem with Jeff Bezos' ideology is that it's based on a false premise. The idea that "6,000 years ago someone invented the plow" is based on a faulty belief that ancient humans functioned as individuals. They did not. Ancient humans were collectivist.

    Archeological evidence demonstrates that for hundreds of thousands of years, early humans congregated around communal gathering places, like the fire, and engaged in problem solving and passing on of shared learning down through generations.

    Additionally, the plow (and tools like it) were developed by humans in Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa as well as other places - not in one place by one person. This is known as parallel development.

    Believing that the plow was invented by one 'genius' is like believing language was invented by one person. It is a silly myth and represents the projection of current moral standards onto past events.

    Collectivism is how we survived and progressed as a species. - Anthony Zenkus
    #Evolution

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Six thousand years ago, someone invented
the plow, and we all got wealthier. A gentle
reminder that all civilizational wealth is
driven by invention.

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