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But say that we didn't have business or currency, and you had to go and get food for your family. Wouldn't you have to make sacrifices even then? There might be

But say that we didn't have business or currency, and you had to go and get food for your family. Wouldn't you have to make sacrifices even then? There might be an emotional situation going on at home, but if the food supply was dwindling that is also an immediate problem. If anything, businesses have allowed us to spend way more time with family than we would if we actually had to hunt / farm / gather for food. Our quality of life is so absurdly high exactly because of our economy. I think people forget what it would take to survive without society.

black6 5y ago
> If anything, businesses have allowed us to spend way more time with family than we would if we actually had to hunt / farm / gather for food. That is untrue. There is ample evidence that hunter-gatherer societies have more leisure time than industrialized societies. Just to name two sources I've recently read: Harari covers it in Sapiens, and before that Mumford covered it in Technics and Human Development.
- xboxnolifes 5y ago
  Realistically, if I wanted a similar family quality of life as hunter-gatherer societies, I could reach it in far less work time in modern society. Cutting out the expenses of larger/modern housing, advanced healthcare, higher education, and a lot of expensive leisure activities, living a simple family life would be very cheap and affordable on less than a 40 hour work week. I could even have a better lifestyle in many regards for the same amount of work time.