Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls

Re:Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and ... by sliverstorm on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:39PM (#10201900)

If working for money to eat is slavery, it is your stomach you are enslaved to. Empires are not the villain there. Were you free of the market, you would still be compelled to work to feed yourself.

You can even argue that the market is liberating, as it allows you to feed yourself with skilled trades.

That is what always bugs me with equating the need to work with slavery. Man has always needed to work, unless of course he lived off the backs of other working men, because shelter food and water have always taken work.

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Re:Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and ... by nickbauman on Friday September 11, 2015 @11:55AM (#10204382)

Your assumptions rest on the idea that unsettled people had to work longer and harder than we do. Not true.

http://hunter-gatherers.org/facts-and-theories.html

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