Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:39PM
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"closer to the literal hunger games than anything people do for fun"
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Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:48PM
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As in dying of malnutrition? Of course it was. Or injuries, diseases...
Pardon my word play on applying the word "play" to a society that constantly faced severe consequences of literal hunger...
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by stillwithit on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:55PM
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If saving people from malnutrition is your concern, good news; it’s still a problem today.
Perhaps we could all spend less time generating empty rhetoric online and more time engaged in what we claim to be via logic, our real concerns
It feels really disingenuous when all the pearl clutching office workers go home to video games not a soup kitchen. Spend their weekends hiking not nursing the sick, fixing poorer people’s homes.
Modern day infantilized office worker crowd is the most off putting group of people I’ve ever encountered.
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:33PM
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Saving people from malnutrition, hunger, violence and war are noble goals. They have nothing to do with discussing, and assessing, the situation in pre-historical times or the live of tribes living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to this day.
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by stillwithit on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:38PM
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Genius of the highest order
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:41PM
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Is that an insult, a compliment or both? I seriously cannot tell.
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by stillwithit on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:53PM
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Good stay in that superposition forever. I’ve come to conclude this forum is a waste of my time.
Never saved random string I set password to and am logging off now
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:55PM
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Fair enough, I guess?
Re:Why Hunter-Gatherers' Work Was Play
by swagempire on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:44PM
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But it's true. Life WAS like that back then.