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Re:America's Prison Population Is in Serious Decline by Avshalom on Thursday June 26, 2025 @12:57PM (#44389152)
Where'd the corn come from? hunter gatherers had teosint. How'd you turn a tree into logs? Where'd the house come from, where'd the table come from?
Re:America's Prison Population Is in Serious Decline by fc417fc802 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:55PM (#44391877)
You've taken the position that there's some issue with original affluent society but none of the points you're raising run counter either to it or to the adjacent observation that modern quality of life almost certainly doesn't require anywhere near the hours worked at present. Unless you consider economic inequality to be a prerequisite for it anyway.
Re:America's Prison Population Is in Serious Decline by Avshalom on Thursday June 26, 2025 @07:42PM (#44392537)
No, I'm taking the position that there are massive issues with the work estimates in "The Original Affluent Society" in response to a poster that seems to think a small farm in the 1980s is comparable to being a hunter gatherer 20-200kya