This is a bit like saying "we are happier as babies than as adults so growing up is the worst mistake we ever make". A charming thought perhaps, but not litera

This is a bit like saying "we are happier as babies than as adults so growing up is the worst mistake we ever make". A charming thought perhaps, but not literally true. Trying to compare the happiness of cavemen with modern people demolishes whatever vague definition of "happiness" we might already have. And if we fall back on "do modern people want to be cavemen?" then the answer is no. Agriculture has profoundly changed every aspect of human existence many times over. Can we label the last few millenia of human history collectively as "good" or "bad"? Compared to what?