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Stone shifting - was it just about effort?
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nigelswift
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Re: Anything for an easy life!
Jan 20, 2004, 08:28
Different though they were, all those people tended to have a penchant for "avoidance of effort through mechanical advantage". We're all Man the Toolmaker after all.

Yes, sometimes religion led them to embrace work, mortify the flesh etc but I would think that's a cultural overlay, a mere changeable belief system, that pops up here and there and now and then in history but isn't as basic as our "work shy" nature. I'd think there was more reason to suppose the ancients were mostly like us than to speculate they had a universal religious belief that led them to revere hard work. Finding ways to skive, i.e. gearing the result to exceed the effort is imprinted because it has survival advantages I reckon.
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