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This statement is at best grossly incomplete. There is plenty of research to suggest that hunter-gatherers had more leisure time than civilized people. E.g: htt
by hamburga 4y ago
This statement is at best grossly incomplete. There is plenty of research to suggest that hunter-gatherers had more leisure time than civilized people. E.g: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6
> There was not time in which a common person did not have to do drudgery to get on with life.
Is hunting drudgery? Are epic food-gathering missions? Creating new towns and villages?
- gretch 4y agoOkay so do it? Get a group of your friends and go become hunter gathers on the Yukon frontier.
- mc32 4y agoExactly. There are vast quantities of uninhabited areas of Yakutia. People could return to being hunter-gatherers and enjoy all its, uhhhm, trappings and live a happy, fulfilling life! But you know what, except for a very few, no one else will want to do it. Ask any random American, or ask any random want-to-be immigrant, hey there, there is this great big opportunity for you and your family to return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle; are you up for that, it'll free you from the chains of modernity; Believe me, it's very leisurely!
- hamburga 4y agoCan I please have the abundant Moroccan coast of 300,000 BC, with all the best real estate available for squatting?
- gretch 4y agoYes, but you have to defend it from other tribes who want to take it from you through violence. Same deal as everyone else.