@gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 14 days agoThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.message-square28fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.@gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 14 days agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilink0•edit-214 days agoSecond tool: that same rock someone else found. But it’s mine now.
minus-square@SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish0•14 days agoThird tool: I copied that rock then took that rock with my rock. Now I have two of them.
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilink0•14 days agoFourth tool: I make hundreds of tiny identical little pebbles and start handing them out to people to reward them for behavior that I agree with. Soon after, the tribe is divided into people with the little pebbles and people without.
First tool: a rock someone found
Second tool: that same rock someone else found. But it’s mine now.
Third tool: I copied that rock then took that rock with my rock. Now I have two of them.
Fourth tool: I make hundreds of tiny identical little pebbles and start handing them out to people to reward them for behavior that I agree with. Soon after, the tribe is divided into people with the little pebbles and people without.