[Starboard]

Farming is a much more secure and easy way to get sustenance.

It also provides a more convenient basis for taxation. :)

[DBrow]

lol

And surely that leads to advanced civilization, with a census, a tax, tax collectors, census takers, inspectors, and buildings with guards...

You are so right, even being tongue in cheek- you can't really have formal taxes in a hunter-gather economy.