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In a comment thread on a forum I am offering a non-nuanced binary view. How economically secure does a hunter gatherer or subsistence farmer feel, with no medi

• smacktoward 10y ago
  The problem is that satisfaction is completely relative. A hunter/gatherer with no medicine and loads of superstitions doesn't feel anxious when everybody else is a hunter/gatherer with no medicine and loads of superstitions too. They feel anxious when they are that way, but they can look over a fence and see other people living in nice houses and living forty years longer than they do. Progress is not uniformly distributed, and even in "advanced" societies there are wide and growing gaps between a small, privileged few and the rest who have to make do with much less. It's completely understandable why that would make people anxious, even if they have access to Netflix.
• zardo 10y ago
  That depends on the person's beliefs. Whether or not you experience the feeling of security is just as much about your internal representation of the world as it is about the external world.
  • sjclemmy 10y ago
    Exactly.