Reply #17: I think being a hunter-gatherer [View All]

[XemaSab]

would be a bad deal all around for most people.

No modern health care would be a big one. Basic shit like an ear infection, childbirth, a cavity, or any injury could mean dying. Also no modern birth control. The amount of physical labor also meant BAD arthritis by the time you were 35 or so with no modern painkillers.

Hunting and gathering wouldn't be bad when times were good, but mortality in most native tribes was very high. You'd probably run the risk of starvation at least every few years.

The women did a huge amount of labor. Yeah, the male fantasy involves hunting a few days a week, but the reality is much more intensive than that.

Most of the food would be really shitty. The Indians in California ate a lot of acorns. Acorns taste shitty.

I think you'd freeze your ass off in winter, and bake all summer.

No literacy. Screw that.

Ditto for never going more than about 30 miles from where you were born.

You'd probably be really stuck as far as potential mates. Your buck-toothed cousin? The one girl with the cross eyes? Your grandpa's friend? That's what you'd be rockin'.

I'm all about modern society. I think modern society's got it going on.