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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

it's not the oldest profession, if you're willing to exchange something for a resource, the actual first job is obtaining that resource.

[-] raef@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

Two things can be true

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

And the first resource was...

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure you weren't born with food.

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Maybe he's a cabbage patch kid?

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're certainly reasoning like a cabbage.

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Omg I am dying lol

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's why it's someone's job to get it.

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You must realize: that all went completely over their leafy li'l green head.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Til Farmer is not a profession

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

TYL farmers aren't simple gatherers.

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

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