gedaliyah to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 8 months agoThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.message-square26fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.gedaliyah to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 8 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilink0•edit-28 months agoSecond tool: that same rock someone else found. But it’s mine now.
minus-square@SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish0•8 months agoThird tool: I copied that rock then took that rock with my rock. Now I have two of them.
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilink0•8 months 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.
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.