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Its also spent fighting off other people who want to live on the same very limited natural resources, or you die from starvation. That is the reason we stopped
by username90 5y ago
Its also spent fighting off other people who want to live on the same very limited natural resources, or you die from starvation. That is the reason we stopped living like that, it hasn't been possible for thousands of years since there simply are too many humans to do it.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThe reason there are too many humans to do it is because we invented agriculture, and we stopped living like that just as we invented agriculture. Spending your time fighting for limited resources is actually not something we stopped doing. If you live in the US on average around 4% of your working time is spent on war, and that's working more than twice the hours, all things considered, of people in the neolithic. And that's in relative peace time, expect that to revert to the mean in the next decade or two. Anyways, this is besides the point, the natural state of man is indeed to do less labour and even less work than nowadays.
- saiojd 5y agoSupposedly actual warfare was quite low until sedentism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare#Paleolithic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare#Paleolithi... Apparently, humans would tend to migrate rather than fight for available resources.