Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers

[Private Pickle]

From the dawn of agriculture to the industrial age man was caught in the Malthusian Trap. Farm production could not keep up with population growth.



(From Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms)

What does income have to do with population growth that directly correlates to agriculture?

[Sergeant Gleed]

Yes, farmers bust their butts, at least before mechanuization, but they have more assurance tgst food will show up.

Also, farmers create food surpluses, and it was thst surplus that enabled men to create cities, and it was in the cities where real human progress happens.

[Sergeant Gleed]

From the dawn of agriculture to the industrial age man was caught in the Malthusian Trap. Farm production could not keep up with population growth.



(From Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms)

Farm production has almost always outstripped population growth.

[Sergeant Gleed]

Hunter-gathers, I'd say.

Wrong answer.

[Trumpster]

Agriculture was not progres, and it was sexist!

Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers, study suggests

Without complete details of how the study was conducted, it doesn't mean much. For example, it says that Hunter-gatherers adopted farming and worked about 10 hours longer. Perhaps it was due to not having any experience at farming and/or not having the right equipment.

[Chris]

Without complete details of how the study was conducted, it doesn't mean much. For example, it says that Hunter-gatherers adopted farming and worked about 10 hours longer. Perhaps it was due to not having any experience at farming and/or not having the right equipment.

Basic details are in the linked article.

[Chris]

Wrong answer.

For a progressive, no doubt.

[Chris]

From the dawn of agriculture to the industrial age man was caught in the Malthusian Trap. Farm production could not keep up with population growth.



(From Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms)

What does income have to do with population growth that directly correlates to agriculture?

I'm trying to show when mankind was caught in the Malthusian Trap. The same graph applies to population. Population would rise, production couldn't match its demands, and it would decline. For all of recorded history up until the Induction Revolution when automation in production outpaced population growth.

[Chris]

Farm production has almost always outstripped population growth.

Here's a chart of world population:



Population growth was kept low most of mankind's existence by limitations in agricultural production. This is known as the Malthusian Trap.

In abstract form:

[Trumpster]

Wouldn't the Malthusian Trap also apply to hunting and gathering? Has anyone calculated the maximum world wide population that would be supported without agriculture? The world wide population of hunters and gatherers would grow until such time as there would be a shortage of wild animals and edible plants. So the population would, for a time, outpace the food supply and then comes, "war, famine and disease."