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Here's Robert Sapolsky, in Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: "Agriculture is a fairly recent human invention, and in many ways it was one of the great stupid moves of all time. Hunter-gatherers have thousands of wild sources of food to subsist on. Agriculture changed all that, generating an overwhelming reliance on a few dozen domesticated food sources, making you extremely vulnerable to the next famine, the next locust infestation, the next potato blight. Agriculture allowed for the stockpiling of surplus resources and thus, inevitably, the unequal stockpiling of them - stratification of society and the invention of classes. Thus, it allowed for the invention of poverty. I think that the punch line of the primate-human difference is that when humans invented poverty, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever before seen in the primate world."

See the Quinn "Ishmael Dancers" file. How might chronic stress, social hierarchy, and agriculture reinforce and synergize with each other to create the Taker lifeway? Connect each of the three to the two others. (In other words, how are chronic stress and hierarchy related? How are chronic stress and agriculture related? How are agriculture and hierarchy related?)