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I agree to your general point, but "instead of spending all day chasing after animals to eat." Actual working hours in small hunter gatherer tribes like the L
by hutzlibu 5y ago
I agree to your general point, but
"instead of spending all day chasing after animals to eat."
Actual working hours in small hunter gatherer tribes like the Lakota were more likely around 3-4 hours.
Medieval peasants had to work all day long.
But both experienced starving in winter and spring, in a bad year.
- DiggyJohnson 5y agoThose tribes have been optimizing their hunter-gatherer lifestyle for thousands of years. Like the rest of modernity, they have innovated (increased their productivity) on their practices and their culture and society has evolved. So I see this point as being evidence to GPs perspective, rather than your own, respectfully.