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The speaker describes the agricultural era as Malthusian, with people earning very low wages, perhaps relative to their living standards in the hunter-gatherer era.
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“And you're in this Malthusian world where people have very low wages, perhaps compared to what they enjoyed in the hunter-gatherer era.”1:58:17Report a misattribution
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