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Comment by casualrandomcom

"Premodern agriculture was characterized primarily as being low-surplus and high-labor, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to produce enough food for everyone to eat, and there’s rarely much left over."

This i contentious, I have actually read scholars that argue the opposite.

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