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Comment by Evidlo

Premodernist has a good video on why certain societies didn't develop wheelbarrows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRnwg3dpboc

It mostly boils down to us overestimating the utility of wheelbarrows from the perspective of our modern, cushy lives. Ancient humans are not dumb and have as much desire to avoid labor as we do.

parent Evidlo 3 months ago

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