Do you think millions of years ago one ape invented capitalism, but the rest thought it was stupid so it didn’t catch on?
even chimps appear to be far more rational than humans in a lot of ways https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/
Die from a toothache.
back 2 monke
life was pretty risky back then , but it was rewarding as well
You could do this right now. Just go to some barely controlled parts of the Amazon rainforest and there will be no one to bother you about not having permission to hunt or gather, well, except maybe the snakes or the spiders or basically every other animal that lives there. It’s barely controlled for a reason.
That wouldn’t work because of the curse of knowledge of what modern life feels like which is impossible to set aside. Since you are aware of hot showers, soft beds, painkillers, and the safety of a locked door, every moment in the forest would be measured against that. But it would be a completely different story if you had grown up in that environment and living off the land was all you had ever known. It would simply be life with no other standard to measure it against. Our minds are ultimately a product of our material conditions, they don’t just exist in a vacuum, we are actively shaped by our environment.
