Also sitting on a cold toilet seat is now particularly jarring. What a luxury! I highly recommend!
It is a psyop that rich people are just getting scammed out of their money.
I think this idealization of “hunter gatherer” society is absolutely insane. It’s like arguing the moon is made of cheese. People were likely not happy being hungry, scared, and afraid most of fucking the time.
A person that had 'happiness' and now is in a less secure position.
A person surrounded by happy people, but doesn't feel that way themselves.
Relative privation does weird things to people.
For all we know when people start to travel cross continent in minutes, press a button and have instant steak printed, we cannot assume they will be happier than everyone alive today. They will have their own set of issues to weight them down. If nothing, boredom.
Sure, some things are "objectively" better, like lower child mortality and so on. But happiness is so subjective. It's entirely possible that when we were hunter gatherers, the average person was happier, even though child mortality and life expectancy were considerably lower.
It's easy to think that access to high tech like iPhones and a toilet to shit in makes people happy, but I don't think this is the case.