I’m confused why you and everyone else in this thread are so quick to dismiss the idea that hunter gathers have more happiness/ life satisfaction/well being.
No it’s not obvious, but the implications are absurd enough (agricultural revolution was a mistake, cities were a mistake) that I think it’s reasonable to discard the idea
Depending on what you mean by mistake I don’t think those implications are absurd at all.
The agricultural revolution wasn’t a decision humanity made, it’s game theory. More resources, more babies, and your ideas survive.
I’m not even saying that modernization was a mistake, which btw we could be less happy and i would still not necessarily say it was a mistake (again, depending on what you mean by mistake). It’s just that I think you are anthropromorphizing cultural natural selection as a well thought out decision with the intention of maximizing current utility.
I’m confused why you and everyone else in this thread are so quick to dismiss the idea that hunter gathers have more happiness/ life satisfaction/well being.
This is not at all obvious to me.
No it’s not obvious, but the implications are absurd enough (agricultural revolution was a mistake, cities were a mistake) that I think it’s reasonable to discard the idea
Depending on what you mean by mistake I don’t think those implications are absurd at all.
The agricultural revolution wasn’t a decision humanity made, it’s game theory. More resources, more babies, and your ideas survive.
I’m not even saying that modernization was a mistake, which btw we could be less happy and i would still not necessarily say it was a mistake (again, depending on what you mean by mistake). It’s just that I think you are anthropromorphizing cultural natural selection as a well thought out decision with the intention of maximizing current utility.