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Modern traditional societies are not equivalent to original hunter-gatherer societies who did not have the same tools and skill sets. Notwithstanding, creating
by slothtrop 3y ago
Modern traditional societies are not equivalent to original hunter-gatherer societies who did not have the same tools and skill sets.
Notwithstanding, creating tools and arranging supplies is work. But the banality of this is that people spend plenty of time socializing at work today, in office or elsewhere. It's not like we stopped doing that. Are we going to start putting double quotes around the "work" that we do because of idle chat?
Work is good for us. Some jobs are just not as good as others.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoYes, doing light work and socializing aren't mutually exclusive activities, but that's not my point. You can just sit around shooting the shit, with various people doing different tasks and some just relaxing. Time budgets separate these, but I'm deliberately avoiding trying to summarize those except in the broadest possible sense. I have another comment in this thread giving examples of how modern and ancient foragers differ.