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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Society is very natural, OUR current model of society is sadly not

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not quite. Humans evolved to exist in small hunter-gatherer groups, which I would not consider societies. Curiously, these were very egalitarian and people only worked for about 20 hours a week, and the varied lifestyle and diet was optimal for our health. It is really with society that all our problems started

Edit: spelling and clarification

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the disagreement here is in definitions, whether hunter gatherer groups are a society.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Fair point. My mother tongues have slightly different definitions for their words for "society"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

but they didn't have iphones