@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 months agoThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.message-square30fedilinkarrow-up1128
arrow-up1128message-squareThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•edit-22 months agoSecond tool: that same rock someone else found. But it’s mine now.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoThird tool: I copied that rock then took that rock with my rock. Now I have two of them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 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.
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.