[Sca-cooks] oop - artichokes, well - maybe in period

[Chip]

Me:
>> If your entire day isn't spent getting good to keep yourself alive,
>> you can do a lot of other things like city-building and
>> technological development.

> Most hunter-gatherer societies spend maybe 10 hours per week earning
> their livings
> Subsistance farmers and herders spend only a couple more hours per
> week

I've never heard this.  I was basing my thoughts on documentaries and
National Geographic-type shows that I've seen on such tribes.  Jungles
of South America, southeast Asia, etc.  Maybe if I had read your
sources, my little throw-away idea would've turned out differently.

> It's only when you get to "civilized" folk that you find most of a
> person's waking hours devoted to maintaining their basics.

Hadn't heard this, either.  Dictated by a higher quality of living,
maybe?

> Think about it. What do you actually do, in a given week?
> Phlip

Compared to a rice paddy worker, not much.  Right, that was kinda my
point.  I have all this free time because I have money to trade for
convenient food and don't have to spend my day directly procuring said
food.

Like I said, it's just a theory.  Theories can certainly be wrong.
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