3 May 2013 - the important work

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As soon as we got good enough at farming, we decided to start living in cities where we can’t farm. Such a clever species, always finding a way out of the important work. Why, in recent centuries we’ve invented a political class to figure out for us how to get out of the important work so that we don’t have to.

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