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Hasn't that happened in Somalia? There were happy fishermen until their fishing grounds were depleted by businessmen and their big boats which led to the pirate
by slushh 3y ago
Hasn't that happened in Somalia? There were happy fishermen until their fishing grounds were depleted by businessmen and their big boats which led to the pirate industry?
On land, it's hunter gatherers and farming or logging.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoYeah everyone here is totally missing this point “Who would make the iPhones then?” Nobody cause they wouldn’t exist
- kortilla 3y agoNo they aren’t. They are pointing out that it’s a childlike fantasy that ends in pain and agony because a society based on subsistence is missing basic things like anti-bacterials, insulin, anesthesia for surgery, etc.
- namaria 3y agoThe remedy to pain and agony is opium not modern medicine. Stretching out the lives of workers is an economic imperative not a humanistic one. Our fear of suffering and death makes us easy to manipulate.
- kortilla 3y agoMy grandfather got a heart surgery and a pace maker and lived 20 more years gardening, going to the cabin, helping raise his grandkids, and playing cards daily with his wife. Those 20 years were arguably many of the best of his life considering he grew up in the Great Depression and then went to world war 2. Getting ripped on opium is no different than getting ripped on morphine. Modern medice has that too. The difference is that modern medicine has far more tools in the bag before something becomes a terminal illness.
- carabiner 3y agoThe closest parallel might be how native americans lived for thousands of years subsisting on the land. The level of sustainable living they maintained was extraordinary. Everything from 3 sisters farming, to fish stocking in lakes, to controlled burns to prevent wildfires... they found a harmony with their environment to just live enough, and no more. > How cruel the whites are: their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by holes. Their eyes have a staring expression. They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something, they are always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want, we do not understand them, we think that they are mad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochwiay_Biano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochwiay_Biano
- kortilla 3y agoDon’t forget the raping and pillaging of other tribes when times got tough. Very few of the tribes in the more barren west lived on land bountiful enough for this utopian fantasy.