The luxury trap and what we can learn from the agricultural revolution
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari makes you think twice about what we call "progress". We often think of big changes like the Agricultural Revolution as a massive win for humans, but Harari flips that idea on its head. He suggests it might actually be "history’s biggest fraud". It's like we thought we were getting a great deal, but ended up with the short end of the stick.