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Mary Wildfire's avatar

But some of them do it without ropes and chains and whips, because they have been conditioned, trained, usually from infancy. Um, isn't that how they get us to do it too?

Oh no, we been domesticated!

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Simp Of Human Progress's avatar

Wow this is an enlightening insight. I even heard that slaves and peasants used to work less hours than us

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Jan Steinman's avatar

And yet, humans are the only animals that have unemployment.

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Matt Orsagh's avatar

Ha! I am totally stealing that line for the essay. Brilliant.

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