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> It’s hard to be a hunter-gatherer these days. It's the opposite. Today if things go really bad, let's say you or someone you care about gets injured, really
by donio 7y ago
> It’s hard to be a hunter-gatherer these days.
It's the opposite. Today if things go really bad, let's say you or someone you care about gets injured, really sick or run out of food you can fall back to civilization instead of just dying.
Maybe there are people who play in hardcore mode but they won't be the ones you hear about.
- chongli 7y agoThat’s assuming you can make it back to civilization. If you live in a remote area, that may be difficult or impossible. Hunter-gatherers of the past, on the other hand, had friends and family to take care of them. Sure, they didn’t have access to modern medicine, but at least they had someone to feed them and keep them warm while they attempted to heal.
- tathougies 7y agoIf that family could manage to acquire the resources needed to heal. More likely, they would just die after a long and painful death and their family would mourn and hope they could birth another baby to take your place.
- chongli 7y agoDepends on what type of injury it is. There are lots of injuries that don’t require medical attention, such as minor sprains and hairline fractures, that you could survive as long as you had someone to feed you and take care of you. I don’t think you can say you’re “more likely” to just die just because you don’t have access to a doctor.
- tathougies 7y agoLiterally no one needs to go to the doctor for a sprain.
- tonyarkles 7y agoEhhh... depending on the severity, an X-Ray isn’t a bad idea to confirm that you haven’t messed something up in there.
- FrojoS 7y agoNot just minor sprains and hairline fractures. The fact that our body can heal from much worse injuries, shows, that it was useful back then and not necessarily a death sentence.
- wbobeirne 7y agoThat's not the point of that passage, here's the rest > Never mind the struggle to meet Maslow’s tenets of survival: being wild verges on illegal. There are limits to how long you can spend on public land. Fires are frequently prohibited, and hunting is closely circumscribed. It's not that the life of being a hunter-gatherer is hard, it's that the ability to even live that life is hard to come by.