“With agriculture came “the social and sexual inequality, disease and despotism, that curse our existence”.
This is what the ‘social justice’ world view does to people... It distorts history in an effort to change the future.
Agriculture created a situation where technological innovation paid off and it laid the groundwork for the free market system. Excess production could be traded or sold. It also created a lot more free time, time used to advance social development... precisly the effect he thinks it DIDN’T have but SHOULD have had.
He’s a smart man made into an idiot by a leftist world view, where ALL things are political.
It may have done this in aggregate. However, most examinations of hunter-gatherer societies show that they only need about two to three hours a day to get their daily sustenance. Kind of like lions, from what I understand.