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Re:The Loneliness Epidemic by arcadeparade on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:47AM (#20470361)
You're not thinking on a long enough timescale. Hunter gatherers only worked 10 hours a week :)
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Re:The Loneliness Epidemic by Balero on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:04PM (#20471194)
They only hunter/gathered for that long.

How much time was spent in meetings, how much time preparing food, fixing clothes, patrolling territory, scouting things out, making home improvements etc.

If the modern person only worked for food, then I think a few hours a week would suffice.

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Re:The Loneliness Epidemic by intuitionist on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:04PM (#20472398)
ah yes, meetings, that famous bane of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
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Re:The Loneliness Epidemic by badpun on Thursday July 18, 2019 @04:02PM (#20473424)
I wonder if they have a scrum master, who tells everyone what to do, but no one has ever seen him hunting.
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