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To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why? (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Agricolture.
It's what brought us working together in the first place, shifting our habits from nomadic to sedentary and started the concept of civilization.

[–] Ultragigagigantic 2 points 7 months ago

When scarcity should have died, but shitters divided the people for power and wealth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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