Diamond's Point: Was agriculture a futile mistake

Personally, I found both of the articles we read, "The Plough and the Now" and excerpts from "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race", incredibly interesting but also quite disturbing. To say that the plow is the reason why gender inequality exists is a bit of a stretch for me but analyzing agriculture as a possible creation of gender hierarchies is much more understandable to me. Diamond makes several fervent arguments to support his point that the shift from a nomadic lifestyle to agricultural societies was a futile mistkae. In other words, we were rendering ourselves a disservice but becoming a society based on the production of agricultural goods. A few of his main argues stood out to me and I would like to highlight them here. Diamond asserted that the Neolithic Revolution led humans to uptaking a worse diet due to lack of adequate nutrients in their starch-based diet. Due to this substandard diet, agrarians had a significant amount more health issues than did their nomadic predecessors. Jared Diamond also argued that the agrarian societies dependence on monocultures of products like wheat and maize, led to the risk of starvation if one of these vital crops failed. Finally, with the development of cities due to farming, came the subsequent flourishment of both gender and social hierarchies in which men dominated and women became almost entirely submissive (see the Code of Hamurabi for more on this topic of gender inequality). In conclusion, I agree completely with what Diamond has to say because his arguments are well executed and based on genuine facts. These two articles both led me to pondering the fundamental structure of I society and this led me to several questions two of which are listed below:
1. Why has physical strength most often determined power and not intellectual capacity even though a person who is more intelligent than another would theoretically be a better leader due to his/her inherent ability to weigh decisions properly?
2. Are we as humans inherently violent creatures or did violence develop as a result of completion for resources?