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Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by icebraining on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:47PM (#12116242)
What makes online computers & etc different? You could say that about many technologies, even about agriculture. Life was much simpler and sustainable when we were hunter-gatherers (I'm being sincere, not facetious).

In my opinion, whether they are "necessary" is irrelevant (by objective measures, most things aren't) and simplicity is not a meaningful goal in itself.

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Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by clarkmoody on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:53PM (#12116292)
Simpler, yes. But everyone lived near subsistence, and maximum population density was enforced by war, human sacrifice, and starvation.
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Re:My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starv... by icebraining on Monday July 18, 2016 @01:45PM (#12116742)
Yet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism
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