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Old 08-May-2008, 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by farmerjumperdon View Post
Liesure? Forget it. For almost all the recorded history of civilization, until just a few hundred years ago at most, it was almost totally reserved for a very small elite portion of society.
But most of the human timeline is not within "history" and didn't include "civilization"... and hunter-gatherer cultures tend to have plenty of free time because it isn't as much work as agriculture... of course, it doesn't get as much in results, either...
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