> the fact that modern hunter-gatherers spend a surprisingly little amount of their time actually acquiring food (something like 2-3 hours a day) Thinking abou

> the fact that modern hunter-gatherers spend a surprisingly little amount of their time actually acquiring food (something like 2-3 hours a day) Thinking about this a bit deeper, this is only true if you have a small population with relatively plentiful resources. Hunter gatherers quickly bump into the limits of their environment if their population increases. The idealization of their lifestyle is misguided because it would necessitate drastic reduction of population levels to reach that balance. The goal should be to increase the abundance of resources in our modern environment so that we reach the same ratio of resources to population, which hopefully would mean a consequent reduction in the amount of effort we have to expend to obtain those resources.