It's not snarky. People who seem to me to be qualified and serious have suggested both that the initial converts to agriculture were less healthy and happy than

It's not snarky. People who seem to me to be qualified and serious have suggested both that the initial converts to agriculture were less healthy and happy than their hunter-gatherer contemporaries, and that modern humans are less happy than hunter-gatherers. The first claim seems very plausible to me, but the second claim seems less so.