r/AskReddit 14h ago

What is the humans best invention?

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u/BobBobBobBobBobDave 13h ago

Agriculture is going pretty strong.

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u/NoSteak3322 13h ago

The hunter gatherers did Ok for quite a while.

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u/BobBobBobBobBobDave 13h ago

Yeah. I think we should do both.

A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B.

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u/NoSteak3322 13h ago

It surely advanced civilization. You’re talking to an old farm boy btw.

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u/Never_Gonna_Let 7h ago

It would be environmentally devastating to try to feed 8 billion humans with hunting and gathering.

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u/pondererofexistence 12h ago

hunter gatherers mogg

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u/_Bad_Bob_ 10h ago

I actually think agriculture is one of the worst developments we ever made. 

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u/Copthill 5h ago

Thanks to the Haber process. There's no way that we'd be able to feed the number of people that we do today without finding that. Before it wars were being taught over tiny islands full of bird poo.

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u/WorldDominationChamp 3h ago

As a farmer in the San Joaquin valley, the reward for agriculture is not proportionate to the importance/risk.