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What Hacker News says
- "Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism" by Herman Pontzer
"Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
"The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow
"Work: A history of how we spend our time" by James Suzman
I sort of want to include "The Ministry of the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson because it feels almost as much like political treatise as it does a work of fiction.
- For a deeper dive, James Suzman the anthropologist wrote 'Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots'. Published in 2021. It's worth a read if anyone wants understand how the industrial revolution changed work patterns and (perhaps more importantly) how the agricultural revolution changed how people spend their time and how much leisure time people have had throughout human history
- I recommend James Suzman's recent book Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, which examines our relationship with work from our evolutionary beginnings to modern day. The interplay of most of our human past from before agriculture, that revolution, the industrial revolution, and our beliefs about economics and distribution of scarce resources or abundance will likely change your views about how much to work and where to get satisfaction in life.
A big takeaway is that much of what many of us believe are human traits are more products of an economic system we choose than our basic wiring. Ignorance of other systems keeps us from seeing we can change our beliefs.
- The New York Times: Opinion | Why Do We Work So Damn Much?. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-suzman.html
