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There is absolutely no way at all to verify that claim - considering 'better/worse' entirely depends on the happiness of those individuals. Something we have no

• ivalm 5y ago
  Something like 30% remains from pre-agricultural sites show signs of violent death... sure not a measure of happiness but i'll take safety for starters.
  • munificent 5y ago
    It's unclear how reliable statistics like these are, and the picture of how violent and/or war-like pre-agricultural humans were is very far from clear: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-hum... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/war-is-not-part-of-human-nature/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/war-is-not-part-o... https://www.wired.com/2013/07/to-war-is-human-perhaps-not/ https://www.wired.com/2013/07/to-war-is-human-perhaps-not/
• colinmhayes 5y ago
  https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction people have never been happier
  • breakfastduck 5y ago
    That data comes from 1970s onward. So totally not at all what we were talking about.