• @quality_fun
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    1 year ago

    quality of life for much of that time frame was horrible. it’s safe to say that living in prehistoric times is not desirable.

      • ⚧️TheConquestOfBed♀️
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        121 year ago

        Primitivism isn’t even materially possible, but revolutionizing the proletariat’s relationship to production and de-alienating people would do a lot to restore us “to nature” without de-industrializing.

    • ⚧️TheConquestOfBed♀️
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      Hunter gatherers had better health than most agrarian people, based on studies of bones at least. Once farming kicked off the average person was smaller, weaker, and on average had a shorter lifespan. That said, plentiful food and recent health reforms in the west and China have brought the average person back up to that pre-agrarian level in terms of health outcomes. Modern hunter gatherers also tend to have a rich culture and history that they prefer to ours, and many groups report widespread psychological stress when adapting to industrial society.

        • ⚧️TheConquestOfBed♀️
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          61 year ago

          Diet, actually. The average hunter gatherer spends about 4hrs per day on finding food/labor. But it only works in environments where the local human footprint is low enough.

          • JoeMarx 193
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            11 year ago

            I imagine it was more healthy than modern diets from what I can see.

            • @redtea
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              Just the lack of processed ingredients, and abundant salt, sugar, and fat is going to make a huge difference. Not to mention whatever harm we suffer from the chemicals they put in our food. And microplastics.

              Then beyond food. Living without everything being contaminated with lead and asbestos can’t be bad.

              I’m not nostalgic for a primitive life. But industrial environmental degradation has been disastrous for health, even if it coincided with modern medicine (great for those who can get it).

              Edit: typo.

              • JoeMarx 193
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                11 year ago

                SO that’s why we have Dreamsexuals.

    • 陈卫华是我的英雄OP
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      11 year ago

      Obviously, but how could capitalism be a part of human nature if we spent so much time not organized in that way?