gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down112
arrow-up1114arrow-down1message-squareThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-21 month agoSecond tool: that same rock someone else found. But it’s mine now.
minus-squareSnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoThird tool: I copied that rock then took that rock with my rock. Now I have two of them.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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.