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Re:Americans' life ratings reach record high by jessaustin on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:07PM (#27953786)
Based on studies of neolithic tribes, the "natural state of nature" is spending 2-3 hours a day hunting or gathering food, an hour preparing meals, and the rest of the time goofing off.

Is there somewhere in modern society this schedule is available?

Re:Americans' life ratings reach record high by username90 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:57PM (#27954071)
Its also spent fighting off other people who want to live on the same very limited natural resources, or you die from starvation. That is the reason we stopped living like that, it hasn't been possible for thousands of years since there simply are too many humans to do it.
Re:Americans' life ratings reach record high by sudosysgen on Sunday July 25, 2021 @09:13PM (#27954466)
The reason there are too many humans to do it is because we invented agriculture, and we stopped living like that just as we invented agriculture.

Spending your time fighting for limited resources is actually not something we stopped doing. If you live in the US on average around 4% of your working time is spent on war, and that's working more than twice the hours, all things considered, of people in the neolithic. And that's in relative peace time, expect that to revert to the mean in the next decade or two.

Anyways, this is besides the point, the natural state of man is indeed to do less labour and even less work than nowadays.

Re:Americans' life ratings reach record high by saiojd on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:12PM (#27955151)
Supposedly actual warfare was quite low until sedentism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_warfare#Paleolithi...

Apparently, humans would tend to migrate rather than fight for available resources.

Re:Americans' life ratings reach record high by padastra on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:58AM (#27959422)
Lol, I want to know how many people out there ordering Seamless because they’re too lazy to pick up the food are arguing they would have had an easier life chasing down an antelope with a 14-hour jog across the plain and dragging the several hundred lb corpse back to the tribe.
Re:Americans' life ratings reach record high by aga98mtl on Sunday July 25, 2021 @09:18PM (#27954500)
>Is there somewhere in modern society this schedule is available?

You could go live a hunter gatherer lifestyle in most forests in North America. Nobody will try to stop you if you are far enough from a road.