@RadicalGraffiti Henry David Thoreau would argue that agriculture's arrival shattered any semblance of natural equality. Fertile land became wealth, and wealth became power, creating the first landlords and the first serfs. The farmer, chained to his fields from dawn to dusk, traded freedom for survival.

Prior to agriculture, hunter-gatherers met their subsistence needs in roughly 3 to 5 hours of daily effort. The surplus of time that followed was not wasted, it was invested in the refinement of tools, weapons, and clothing, and expressed in the cave paintings that survive as some of humanity's oldest artistic records.

Human beings were never built for this. We are a species that once fed itself in a few hours and spent the rest of the day making art, now we clock in for eight, nine, ten hours and call it living. Agriculture didn't just change how we ate; it built the first cage, and we've been reinforcing the bars ever since. We have the capacity to feed every person on this planet, yet hunger persists not because of scarcity, but because of will. The wealthy will not make that sacrifice, power rarely surrenders itself voluntarily. Thoreau imagined a world governed by conscience. What we have is Hobbes' world, one where survival is still the currency, and those with the most of it make the rules.