Re:Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures
by cma on Monday March 18, 2024 @08:51AM
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That is part of it, but there would also be things like high mortality during childbirth, and lack of antibiotics there at that time.
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Re:Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures
by AlecSchueler on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:04AM
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At the same time you have no car crashes or other post-industrial dangers.
Re:Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures
by dukeofdoom on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:22AM
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But you also were much more likely to farm and hunt and do manual labor. All much more dangerous than office chair
Re:Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures
by AlecSchueler on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @10:05AM
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Is that true? I thought there was evidence for setrong divisions of labour as soon as agriculture came along. That brings surplus and, with it, social stratification.
Re:Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures
by dukeofdoom on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @12:50PM
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A lot more people used to farm as a percentage of the population. Even in the last century, especially in communist countries where pay was low.
Small subsistence farmers were much more common. You might own a small plot, and some pigs, cows an even a horse. Or if really poor work on someone else's land. Just being around animals exposes you to many more dangers, like getting kicked or even infections from cleaning waste.