On 6 February 2014 09:16, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Not handy, but for some reason Jared Diamond comes to mind, and maybe Bill
Bryson. This list
http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/History_of_agriculture_book_list/mentions
both.
-- Charles
This thread made me think (the
On 6 February 2014 20:07, Shenoy N sheno...@gmail.com wrote:
Money is one of the biggest sources of
unhappiness, as far as I can see, if not the single biggest one
As televangelists across the world will tell you with extended hands,
money is not the problem. It is love for money.
Also, I'm
especially the parts where they explain
exactly the question about why people would make that transition when it
actually reduced how happy they were.
Perhaps because happiness is intangible and hard to measure. I am hugely
skeptical of the self-reported model of measuring happiness,
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Most educated people today earn enough by 35 to live simple but comfortable
rural lives for the rest of their lives. Not a lifestyle unlike what their
ancestors lived three generations ago.
I think people should grow
Or you could hypothesize that farming became popular for some reason other
than the happiness of the farmers.
-- Charles
On 05-Feb-14 5:57 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
Or you could hypothesize that farming became popular for some reason other
than the happiness of the farmers.
Indeed. My initial gut feel was to talk about population pressure being
the root cause for this too, but it appears to be a much more
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/9647/origins-of-agriculture
Replying to myself as I ran across something (entirely
serendipitously) that was begging to be included in this discussion.
On Feb 5, 2014 6:29 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/9647/origins-of-agriculture
Replying to myself as I ran across something (entirely
serendipitously) that was
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Or you could hypothesize that farming became popular for some reason other
than the happiness of the farmers.
As I said, this segue is IMHO mostly meaningless, we can only
hypothesize, we can't prove a thing. It's
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
Yearning for a mythical rural idyll is just a way to whine without
trying to make a change in the real world. Don't even get me started
on the selfish self indulgence of exploring inner selves.
I think this debate is very
Actually there's quite a lot of information about the transition from
hunter-gatherer to pastoral/agrarian. Besides the Encyclopedia Brittanica
article Udhay cited, there are both scholarly and popular writings on the
subject. I find them fascinating, especially the parts where they explain
On Feb 6, 2014 9:01 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually there's quite a lot of information about the transition from
hunter-gatherer to pastoral/agrarian. Besides the Encyclopedia Brittanica
article Udhay cited, there are both scholarly and popular writings on the
Not handy, but for some reason Jared Diamond comes to mind, and maybe Bill
Bryson. This list
http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/History_of_agriculture_book_list/ mentions
both.
-- Charles
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
On Feb 6, 2014 9:01
Bayer CEO: We made medicine for people who can afford it, not Indians
I don't think vilification serves any purpose.
On the one hand, Bayer makes life saving drugs, very good; but on the
other hand it intends to only sell it only to the rich; not so good.
Historically speaking this has been
I must clarify that the intent here is not to criticize.
CEOs and politicians are intelligent people making difficult choices -
they are speaking the minds of the people they represent. I think in
the long run the morality of corporations or nations or any collective
tends to represent the
A look at population numbers would say yes. But then quality of life
indicators - and not just material quality, but indicators that take
into account mental illness, loneliness, depression and so on give a
very mixed reading.
By most metrics, hunter-gatherers are the happiest.
So I blame
On Feb 5, 2014 3:09 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
A look at population numbers would say yes. But then quality of life
indicators - and not just material quality, but indicators that take
into account mental illness, loneliness, depression and so on give a
very mixed
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