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Struggling for food was always the default world wide. Compare any time in human history to now, nothing comes close. I understand flipping the sanctimonious "b
by sremani 9y ago
Struggling for food was always the default world wide. Compare any time in human history to now, nothing comes close. I understand flipping the sanctimonious "bird" may make you feel like some kind of intellectual gangster. Humanity made progress in the right direction in spite of its many mistakes and especially Post WWII world had made mind numbing progress that is undeniable across the board.
- jjoonathan 9y agoNo doubt. The point is that there's work to be done -- and it's not the type of work we've collectively gotten so good at. > I understand flipping the sanctimonious "bird" may make you feel like some kind of intellectual gangster. Really? You think I primarily care about the single most severe caveat to the success of our industrial economy in order to look cool?
- opportune 9y agodouchiest comment I've ever read on HN (note that at the time I made this comment, the parent had positive karma)
- iui23owu3 9y agoTalk about sanctimonious. Your argument makes things sound even worse today. We're far more capable, but still playing the same game.
- Retric 9y agoHunter gathers actually tended to have very 'casual' lifestyles with easy access to food. Infectious disease was less of an issue due to low populations making them harder to transmit. Violence however was the major issue keeping populations down. Farming allowed for better defense though increased population density and critically by limiting migration limited contact with outside groups. But, historically farming involved vastly more work. However, due to are vastly longer history as hunter gathers the average person throughout history probably worked ~2-4 hours per day and had plentiful access to food.