Is it not, tho? I mean no disrespect because I ain’t no anthropologist and I ain’t got no PhD in nothing, but, when was this time when humans where not in permanent competition, working most of their waking hours? She comments ‘a few hundred years’ ago which would put it in the Enlightenment, Renaissance, or Middle Ages? I do not think your average peasant got that great of a life back then either. Again I’m not saying it’s not true, but I would appreciate some sources or elaborating a bit further than a trust-me-bro appeal to authority.
Also, I’m not saying that, even if it were normal, we shouldn’t try and change it. Because if we don’t strive to make life better and more comfortable for us humans, what’s the point of all this civilisation shit?
The time when all of that happened was from the beginning of humanity up until about the late 1600s/early 1700s
The average Medieval peasant worked less than half as much as a modern worker. And enjoyed a standard of living much closer to their global average than the modern worker in most cases as well.
Is it not, tho? I mean no disrespect because I ain’t no anthropologist and I ain’t got no PhD in nothing, but, when was this time when humans where not in permanent competition, working most of their waking hours? She comments ‘a few hundred years’ ago which would put it in the Enlightenment, Renaissance, or Middle Ages? I do not think your average peasant got that great of a life back then either. Again I’m not saying it’s not true, but I would appreciate some sources or elaborating a bit further than a trust-me-bro appeal to authority.
Also, I’m not saying that, even if it were normal, we shouldn’t try and change it. Because if we don’t strive to make life better and more comfortable for us humans, what’s the point of all this civilisation shit?
The time when all of that happened was from the beginning of humanity up until about the late 1600s/early 1700s
The average Medieval peasant worked less than half as much as a modern worker. And enjoyed a standard of living much closer to their global average than the modern worker in most cases as well.
Capitalism is a death cult.
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Preagriculture societies as Hunter gatherers could have large amounts of idle time especially in the summer when food is abundant.