You do realize that unstructured gathering only provides a subsistence diet, right? And also typically requires seasonal migration? And basically all of your time every day?
Which is to say, rather than being “free”, gathering costs the time of almost every person in a society, and also requires that society to be regularly mobile, and also shortens lifespans due to malnutrition.
Well actually, evidence shows that gatherers were “working” less than 8 hours a day, way less, and most of that work was basically fucking around. The rest was pure rest.
True about seasonal mobility though, it looks like
You do realize that unstructured gathering only provides a subsistence diet, right? And also typically requires seasonal migration? And basically all of your time every day?
Which is to say, rather than being “free”, gathering costs the time of almost every person in a society, and also requires that society to be regularly mobile, and also shortens lifespans due to malnutrition.
Well actually, evidence shows that gatherers were “working” less than 8 hours a day, way less, and most of that work was basically fucking around. The rest was pure rest.
True about seasonal mobility though, it looks like
Do you know how many hours a day lions sleep?