gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agoThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down112
arrow-up1113arrow-down1message-squareThe people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools.gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareFiniteLooper@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·5 days agoFirst tool: a rock someone found
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-25 days agoSecond tool: that same rock someone else found. But it’s mine now.
minus-squareSnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agoThird tool: I copied that rock then took that rock with my rock. Now I have two of them.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days 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.