[GCFL-discuss] Liveing in the past

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Yes and No I think. Hunter gathers  hunt  all day for food, that would be
considered their job, to find something to put into the pot to feed the
tribe, that and keeping the wild animals away. I think that the few lucky
tribes that happened to be in a very fertile area such as the Nile Valley
would be the ones with time on their hands. Protein (meat) wasn't easy to
come by until farming started up. And of course they were the meat if they
were not careful. How is it that the pyramids were built in Egypt and South
America and not North America. I think that life was a little harder here
because of the weather. People here and other places with our weather were
always thinking about tomorrows dinner.

I can agree about technology making more work, however it dose make life
easier. I haven't used a washboard in years.

Dave


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Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Liveing in the past


> Dave,
>
> I did see a show along those lines, except I think it was recreating 19th
> century rural life rather than 1628. That was a period of intense labor.
>
> What is interesting is that in the most primitive times, before
> agriculture, the relatively small number of people living on earth worked
> far less hours. There is something about improved technology that gives
> us more options, but keeps us working much harder for what we get, which
> for some people is very little, and for others quite a lot. Our very
> remote ancestors had a lot more leisure time than we do. Our more recent
> ancestors worked much harder than we do for less. Today, most people have
> very little leisure, working to pay for all the options we have.
>
> Siarlys
>
>
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