Grabbed the first one off Google but just search how many hours hunter gatherers worked a week
This one says 15-20
I remember reading that from Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature.
Before agriculture, humans basically lived in small groups as hunter-gatherers in areas that had enough flora and fauna to support a group of people who likely had few tools.
Pinker also opined that there likely wasn’t much group vs. group violence prior to agriculture, since it was usually easier just to relocate the group rather than possibly lose a few members of your group in a battle.
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Fuck man, if I was rich I’d get fucking GREAT at Fortnite.
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This is interesting, but one thing that jumps out at me is that this guy uses a really limited definition of “work.” He only considered time gathering enough food for sustenance as “work.” He didn’t even include food prep as part of the work, not to mention building and maintaining shelter, defense from predators, etc. In addition, and I don’t really have any reasoning behind this, but I think a theory that looks at societies whose average lifespans were like half or less of our lifespans and concludes that they spent the overwhelming majority of their time in leisure is that sound.
I mean we don’t include cooking and cleaning in our work time. If we did that’s probably another 10+ hour. But I don’t think most people consider cooking work.
But even if you include everything else it’s only 40 hours.
Also thats a common myth. If tribal people lives past 12 their average age was in the 60s. Their average lifespan was brought way down by so many dying as babies/kids
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But using his definition of work, people today spend less than an hour a week working. People may not consider cooking food work, but they definitely don’t consider building a house or gathering firewood leisure. His definition is so limited that it has no practical meaning because it ignores so many things that people have to do that clearly aren’t leisure, like maintaining a shelter.
The hunter gatherers under discussion were nomadic, they didn’t maintain shelters.
Having to constantly be on the move to follow your food still sounds like work though.
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The nomads in Mongolia are like traveling circuses. A few times a year they have to break down their yurts and everything in them and load them onto carts.
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I doubt that. Shelter is a basic human necessity.
Turns out MyPillowfight was no fight at all:
CarMax uses its “freedom” to fire assholes who work for them.
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they didn’t fire him because of the video
"This individual has not worked for our company since May 2021.
Article says CarMax claims he hasn’t worked there since May 2021 so he either works somewhere else or is unemployed.
I sincerely love internet vigilantes contacting his family in addition to his last know place of employment.
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Missed that. Sorry. But there goes his chance of getting hired back. 
I’m kinda meh on tattle tales doing things like snitch-tagging someone’s employer in twitter replies but I’m a huge fan of contacting their mom
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Chances are his mom has similar views, no?
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I don’t think this is a given at all. There are certainly thousands to millions of Deplorable Karens raising Deplorable Kevins, but there are also thousands to millions of world class assholes with moms that are normal caring people.