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If we had stayed farmers, we wouldn't have these issues. Most people would be still happy. Intelligence is both destruction and savior.



"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." - Douglas Adams


> farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population

https://www.fb.org/in-the-news/modern-farmer-farmers-face-a-...


Do you think that study applies if we would go 2000 years back? World was kinda different.




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