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Reject modernity, return to hunter-gatherer
I guess you are joking, but I see this argument often and it really doesn't make any sense.
Not defending the multi billion dollars corporation and not denying that something seriously need to change on how we value our time, but hunters-gatherers would kill for an 8 hours job, probably sittinf down on a computer. They had to work the whole day, dawn to dusk, just to survive.
I don't think that's true. At least the stuff I've read seems to show that about ~40 hours a week was pretty normal.
Don't get me wrong, there's good reasons to not want to go back to hunter-gatherer societies (the linked article goes into that), but raw hours worked isn't one of them.
no they didn't, hunter-gatherers had (and have) remarkably chill lives.
the thing is just that when things sucked they REALLY sucked, but it's not like that's not true in many places on earth right now despite all our technological advancements.. People are currently starving to death and being bombed in gaza.
As we do more archaeology we're realizing that people were building permanent settlements way way way way before the "dawn of civilization" in the middle east.
They were figuring out a really fucking sweet balance between a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle and the "modern" fixed farming lifestyle, where they had a bunch of settlements that they moved between depending on the seasons, and as they went along they planted things strategically so the entire environment around them would be what we'd call a "food forest" these days.
Just some good ol' healthy outdoors activity