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Last Monday I did a 15 minute FIRE podcast interview with Arin Greenwood, who was nice enough to let me talk about what was on my mind then: legacies of forager vs. farmer conflicts.
Forage vs Farm Podcast
I think it's true that as people get older they become more conservative. How does this fit in with the farmer/forager divide?
If it was wealth related presumably you'd expect it to scale in the other direction; as people older they become richer and should revert more to forager ways.
The difference is clearer with female promiscuity; even polygamous cultures have little of that. I'm not claiming farmer-forager pattern explains all patterns you might see in any data; the world is too complex for that. But it is a good robust first cut.