For the last 10,000 years, our society has spread from the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East (and lots of other places) throughout all the land. Little by little, people around the world stopped hunting their food and started growing it. And compared to the hunter/gatherer life, farming sucked. You had to do a lot more work to grow enough food than to just catch it. People have to plow fields, plant seeds, harvest crops, protect their food from the weather and famine, and stay put in one place to do it all. And every year the farm had to get bigger because the family got bigger (with increase in food supply, comes an increase in population: every single time). The population of the earth has continued to grow steadily and exponentially for the last ten millennia, all with more work to be done, farm tools to sharpen, tractors to fix, stumps to pull, rocks to dig up etc. This is a lot of work.
Dick Gilmore, the uncle of a close friend, has solved this problem. After 30 years working as a drug rep, entrepreneur, counselor etc., he got stuck in traffic one time too many, and moved from Denver, across the Rocky Mountains, to Delta, Colorado where he had a home custom built to his lifestyle.
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