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Re:Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth? by maxerickson on Saturday October 07, 2017 @09:34PM (#15426580)
Are a large percentage of people in our technological society actualized in that way?

Do people that take a 2nd job to put food on the table for their kids see that as progress for the human race?

Re:Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth? by imustbeevil on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:00PM (#15426651)
Would you rather take a 2nd job or run around naked looking for an animal you can kill?

Everyone realizes the progress humanity has made. It is disrespectful to the people taking second jobs to insinuate that they'd be better off living ten thousand years ago. What does that say about how you view their life?

Re:Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth? by ddingus on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:46PM (#15426754)
False choice.

The current level of economic struggle in the US is both unacceptable and unnecessary.

I might take the hunt, and or form community with other peers who have had quite enough.

Together, it's not a bad equation.

I lived that kind of way for a time having delivered from the wilderness to food on the plate before age 16.

Re:Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth? by tspike on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:50PM (#15426761)
On the subject of disrespect: characterizing the entirety of the vast diversity and prehistory of hunter-gatherer society as "running around naked looking for an animal to kill."
Re:Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth? by maxerickson on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:02PM (#15426658)
I didn't insinuate they'd be better off as hunter gatherers, I questioned whether the flowery stuff the other poster said about advancing the human race was something they gave much thought.
Re:Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth? by marchenko on Sunday October 08, 2017 @04:39AM (#15427459)
When you consider that hunting has been an elite pastime for the entirety of recorded civilisation, I suspect that many people would indeed opt to "run around [in environmentally-appropriate clothing] looking for an animal to kill"