teyrnon

How is it a good post arguing that it was wrong to execute the kids of the Tsar? Do you not understand how monarchies work?

This is a dumbass post. If they didn’t kill the family of the Tsar they would be used by counter revolutionaries.

As to the last paragraph, I said the opposite, that farmers were subjugated in a way the tribal hunter gatherers were not.

You can talk better or worse, but for a lot of people, life is hell right now. More than you may know. The people building you phones for instance. Or making your clothes. Or most of your other cheap bullshit we used to make here with union labour.

I disagree if you are claiming being a hunter gatherer was worse than being a farmer. As do a lot of archeologists. For the reasons I already stated.

Farmers are at the mercy of the rulers of that region. They can’t just leave. They become slaves.

Apples to oranges comparing the early modern era, anywhere back to classical days, to prehistory.

“Work,” following herds of game and hunting, is not the same thing as schlepping it to some multinational soulless corp 5 days or more a week for what is now approaching starvation wages for many.

The hunter gatherers are understood to have had more free time, and a higher standard of living in many respects, than their ancestors that started to farm, and were subsequently conquered by organized groups of armed men that subjugated them.

You forget the hunting part. And caves were a not an all time thing, most had to follow the herds, or move to find game. You couldn’t stay in the same cave without exhausting the resources.

But hunter gatherer societies had a more egalitarian society, and had a lot of free time. After agriculture took off, armed groups could force them to do stuff and make their lives tougher a lot easier.

War, death, destruction. Police states. Corrupt politicians. Fuck taxes.

You can thank the Prussians and Frederick the Great for those taxes. They were the first to institute a complete national census (at least the first in the more modern era, the Romans may have done complete censuses,) to better tax the population to pay for their war machine.