> This was nicely captured in Sapiens. Hunting/Gathering was hard but more enjoyable than farming. But farming provided a comfortable, predictable life. If thi

> This was nicely captured in Sapiens. Hunting/Gathering was hard but more enjoyable than farming. But farming provided a comfortable, predictable life. If this was his conclusion I feel quite good about not having read his work. Hunting/gathering was untenable as populations grew. More stationary farming practices were inevitable. You can’t have a population of million of tigers on a small island… even if they also “gather”. I’ve also heard that farming was more labor intensive; that’s pretty pop-anthropolical science, might be outdated for all I know. Not to mention that it also lead to class society since you can accumulate grain and things more simply than game meat and hide. Hmm, being a savage sounds more comfortable than being a serf. > The real job of a relationship is to raise children. Atleast that's what nature designed it for. Nature does not care about your heartbreak or feelings. The birth rates are already declining. Raising children in a nuclear (not extended), middle class family is very labor-intensive. Many parents mostly only have themselves to rely on in the first few years where the child demands a lot of upkeep. Then as they get older the parents have to surrogate all of the money that the child needs to Keep Up With The Joneses (child/teen edition) in order to not be “left out”—all kinds of manufactured wants and needs brought to them by marketing towards children. Again, you can’t shield them from that or else they are “weird”. Again: what comfort?