>As you go back through the ages life gets worse. Which life is better on the whole? That of an apex predator in its natural environment or that of livestock?

>As you go back through the ages life gets worse. Which life is better on the whole? That of an apex predator in its natural environment or that of livestock? There is a case to be made that modern humans have been progressively turned into domesticated livestock, abstracted from their ancestral, natural habitat since the neolithic revolution. It is unclear that cell phones and modern medicine increase net happiness when many work soul sucking, unhealthy sedentary jobs and suffer a long gray existence in nursing homes and hospitals.