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by courtf 1862 days ago
For most of humanity's existence, we were nomadic hunter-gatherers. The majority of what we HAD to do was keep moving. We traded that life for a more predictable food supply during the agricultural "revolution." That was when the back-breaking labor, long hours and slavery really took off.

We might not be good at sitting around doing nothing, but it's the sitting around part that is really the problem.