October 18, 2016

The future of work manifesto

Working hard? More like hardly working, amirite? Oh. You are working hard? Er, ok. My apologies. Carry on. We humans are hunter-gatherers domesticated into becoming farmers. Around 10,000 years ago, we discovered the wonders of agriculture. To make farmers out of hunters, we used social norms and sanctions. This tension of our origins is described in the fable of Cain and Abel, which ends with Cain the farmer slaying his brother, and God's favorite, the hunter-gatherer Abel. Read More

Source: TechCrunch