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Paying your rent: it's that easy
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this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
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it's not the oldest profession, if you're willing to exchange something for a resource, the actual first job is obtaining that resource.
Well, I think they weren't counting gathering/hunting for self-sustenance. It's like how other primates trade food for sex. Or the chimps that turned to prostitution as soon as they were introduced to symbolic money
Two things can be true
And the first resource was...
Food
Pretty sure you weren't born with food.
Maybe he's a cabbage patch kid?
They're certainly reasoning like a cabbage.
Omg I am dying lol
That's why it's someone's job to get it.
But you are using the human resource of labour to gather it. We use our bodies to produce all goods and services. I take your point, I just don't think most people consider basic survival tasks to be a profession. A profession is probably best considered to be the first abstraction layer that allows you to do an activity other than those basic tasks to survive.
You must realize: that all went completely over their leafy li'l green head.
Til Farmer is not a profession
TYL farmers aren't simple gatherers.
I'd argue the earliest humans probably traded sex for protection via having a partner, which isn't a resource or really a job anymore than "husband" would be considered a job.
i bet you're fun at parties.
the douchebags constantly spewing "prostitution is the oldest profession" at parties are a riot though, my god, the new ideas they bring to the table, wooo
https://academic.oup.com/book/1492/chapter-abstract/140911747?redirectedFrom=fulltext