Have you read the book? What I remember is that it took 5000 years for the transition to happen, and that human went back in forth with the two systems.
That was far from a black and white transition.
Hunther gatherer knew about farming and were actually farming
Also: trash and bones of the two groups indicate that farming was more subject to instability and shortage of nutrients. ( as backward as it sound for us )
You're missing a lot of nuance. Graebers work is great. Tons of evidence-based discussions and thorough logic. What you've written here is even really deserving of a forum post.
Yeah but that chain of comments was originally talking about James C. Scott "against the grain". A historian specialized in early agricultural history and thus relevant here in that comment section about early human history.
I even got confused and thought that Scott wrote "bullshit job", but it's Graeber.
In regards to jobs: I think it's perfectly conceivable that one job is useful to a few, but generally pointless for society.
