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> even if you escape the sedentary village, the stable neighbouring village will happily return you to "your owner" so that he would hopefully return the favor
by pdonis 8mo ago
> even if you escape the sedentary village, the stable neighbouring village will happily return you to "your owner" so that he would hopefully return the favor if ever he catches one of "their slaves")
Tell that to all the people who ran the Underground Railroad in the pre-Civil War US, not to mention all the other ways that Fugitive Slave laws were persistently violated.
I think you are vastly underestimating the benefits of a modern "sedentary" society. But as I pointed out in my other post, if you really don't think they're benefits, then you can simply forgo them. Go and live an off grid subsistence lifestyle. There are people who do that. But of course they don't post on the Internet.
- DoctorOetker 8mo agoWhat makes you think they don't post on the internet?
- pdonis 8mo agoHow is someone living a hunter-gatherer subsistence life going to get Internet access? That requires a technological society, which requires a lot of wealth creation way above a subsistence level. If you're saying that someone might claim they're living a hunter-gatherer subsistence life except when they're not, well, that's just hypocrisy. If you're going to make use of things that require a modern technological society, then you're saying life in a modern technological society is preferable to a hunter-gatherer subsistence life, whether you like it or not. You can't have it both ways.