Today I learned +

[CleverNickName]

Yes, profession often means "something you pay someone to do", like lawyer, doctor, accountant, soldier, or sex worker. We probably didn't pay each other to do hunting and farming initially because we didn't have money.

Profession can also mean "group of people whom you pay something to do, who may form organisations for mutual protection, quality control, or price fixing" and again that's not really a hunting/farming thing, at least initially.

This makes sense...there is a difference between someone who fishes for their next meal, and someone who fishes for their community, and someone who fishes for profit. All of them are fishermen, but not all of them are generally considered professional fishermen.

Still: if professions couldn't exist until money was invented, then "moneychanger" would be the oldest profession, right?

Don't mind me, my brain is just in a weird mood today. I'll be over here staring at the wall until it finally wears itself out and goes to sleep.

 

[Bohandas]

Saw this topic: I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism
and looked up the word 'bioessentialism'. And now I have yet another use for that 10' pole so popular in early editions.

The problem on this forum that a lot of people here are using it to mean something wholly distinct from its dictionary definition (the dictionary definition being "The philosophy that biology plays a larger role in determining human psychology or development than social, economic, or environmental factors" source: Wiktionary; emphasis mine) and then conflating it back to the dictionary definition as a strawman to attack people.

They're saying that the undelated statement "humans are different from orcs are different from elves" is bioessentialism and then using equivocation to falsely accuse people of supporting hate.

I don't know whether this stems from disingenuity or from genuine confusion, altuough hanlon's razor suggests genuine confusion