America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking

Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by hamburga on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:00PM (#34602010)

This statement is at best grossly incomplete. There is plenty of research to suggest that hunter-gatherers had more leisure time than civilized people. E.g: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6

> There was not time in which a common person did not have to do drudgery to get on with life.

Is hunting drudgery? Are epic food-gathering missions? Creating new towns and villages?

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Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by gretch on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:49PM (#34602752)

Okay so do it? Get a group of your friends and go become hunter gathers on the Yukon frontier.

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Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by mc32 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:54PM (#34602823)

Exactly. There are vast quantities of uninhabited areas of Yakutia. People could return to being hunter-gatherers and enjoy all its, uhhhm, trappings and live a happy, fulfilling life! But you know what, except for a very few, no one else will want to do it. Ask any random American, or ask any random want-to-be immigrant, hey there, there is this great big opportunity for you and your family to return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle; are you up for that, it'll free you from the chains of modernity; Believe me, it's very leisurely!

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Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by hamburga on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:27PM (#34603225)

Can I please have the abundant Moroccan coast of 300,000 BC, with all the best real estate available for squatting?

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Re:America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking by gretch on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:31PM (#34603276)

Yes, but you have to defend it from other tribes who want to take it from you through violence. Same deal as everyone else.

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