This podcast isn't very long, but I hope you will find that it's worth your time.

Hey, it's Ben Skoda, and this is a special archived episode of A Kimbo. First question, who discovered America?

Who discovered Australia?

Well you could say Christopher Columbus or James Cook, but you would be wrong because there were already people in both places by the time they got there.

What those men did is reported back to the rest of Europe what they had

seen and once people had seen it they couldn't unsee it. Suddenly, those things were on the radar.

So the question is, who discovered time? is a really new idea.

Because time, modern time, time informed by choices,

by opportunity cost, is a really new idea. In 1974 Marshall Salons wrote a

breakthrough book called Stone Age economics. If you took someone from the Stone Age Economics.

If you took someone from the Stone Age

from only 5,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago,

and adopted them as an infant,

they would grow up to be indistinguishable from the people

around us today.

And yet, the world of the caveman, Stone Age economics, was really different than the world of today.

He estimates that people had to work two or three hours a day to forage and find enough food to thrive on. So what did they do the rest of the time?

Did they check their email? Did they build giant sculptures?

Did they engage in never-ending debates with each other?

Well, we don't know about the last one,

but we assert that they spend most of their time

having a good day, lying around chatting, napping, not doing much of anything

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