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[โ€“] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say the plow. Agriculture means your tribe get to spend less time hunting and gathering, but the plow means your tribe get a chance to become an empire

In this case I'm taking the word "greatest" more as "biggest/most impactful" and not necessarily "most good" but also I'm no anarcho-primitivist, idk...

[โ€“] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

In this case I'm taking the word "greatest" more as "biggest/most impactful" and not necessarily "most good"

Yeah that's what I meant, I agree with the topic of "it might be what started workers exploitation", but what I'm talking about is "it's an invention/discovery that was so powerful to shift the natural behaviour of a species". We're not even talking about antropology now, it's an etological impact and there haven't been many others in our history