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[โ€“] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They knew. Agriculture is what created the whole concept of "work".

[โ€“] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 5 points 10 months ago

I would argue the opposite; that semi-agricultural societies --pre-columbian California is a good example-- had no way of knowing where an increasing reliance on predictable harvests would eventually take them.