[casualrandomcom]

"Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat, and there’s rarely much left over."

This i contentious, I have actually read scholars that argue the opposite.

[automatic6131]

>This i contentious, I have actually read scholars that argue the opposite.

It is far from contentious, you are probably mixing up "premodern agriculture" with "pre-agriculture". Furthermore, as detailed in an article [1] referenced (and linked to) by this post, you are probably mixing up the labor paid as rent vs the whole of the labor required to survive

1 - https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-...

[kasey_junk]

It’s contentious that premodern _agriculture_ was high labor?

The contentious point I’ve seen is that hunter gatherer societies perhaps were not high labor.

Do you have any sources I can look at?