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How is the agrarian age now considered the blueprint for what a good life supposedly looks like?

There are several non-agrarian nomadic peoples that raise large land mammals for their milk.

To your point, Steve Jobs made a similar comment at D8 -Jobs: “When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm.

If they were almost all completely crushed by agrarian societies, as he illustrates in Guns, Germs & Steel, wouldn't that be considered unsuccessful?

Very little engineering was done before agrarian societies, and I'm fairly certain that most ancient wonders required no small amount of engineering chops.

It might be one reason why pastoral farmers[1] thought that women were "unclean", and I'd be interested to know whether goddess-worship comes from more agrarian than pastoral societies.

In industrialized nations the ratio of food cost to income is almost laughably low - compared to agrarian nations where the cost of food can sometimes be up to half of a family's income.

It is slowly disappearing as India is slowly transforming from an agrarian society into an industrial society.

Illiterate societies are unable to progress past agrarian economies because illiteracy precludes specialisation, prevents the dissemination of knowledge, and makes it almost impossible to learn new things except by imitation or direct instruction.

This is silly.> Usually, high religious observance and low income go along with high birthratesNo, usually what goes along with high birthrates is an agrarian peasant society that has to maintain high birthrates because 50%+ of children die before the age of 5, and if you want to have several kids of working age around to help in the fields, you need to aim for 8 or 12 newborns.