>Assuming of course you didn't starve to death or other common ways of dying. This is part of the reason why people were desperate to give up subsistence livin

>Assuming of course you didn't starve to death or other common ways of dying. This is part of the reason why people were desperate to give up subsistence living. Urbanization happened over the past couple hundred years because people saw more opportunity in cities than they could ever have with subsistence living. They would not starve to death anymore, at the very least. Their "jobs", or ways to make a living to help expand the definition for you, were very crappy, and filled with existential uncertainty, as opposed to the uncertainty of being "hired" or "fired".