I can imagine a time when people aren’t absolute morons.
Both scenarios are incompatible with reality, but we can dream.
There was also a less than 50% chance you live long enough to hit puberty and the average lifespan was 33.
Well, if you were born healthy then yeah, but if you were born with even a slight health issue… Nah, I would choose capitalism
Guy has the brain of a child
Yeah, pure vibes till the starving bear comes into your camp, eats your food, and kills half the people. But yeah keeping vibing. 😆
Catching salmon and finding berries seems like work. (A job)
Living in a cave feels like poverty (imo)
It is all fun and games until you have your first toothache.
I’d like to see how many seconds it would take for Robert to be pleading for a smartphone and access to the internet again if he was dumped in the middle of a remote location in some part of the world where living off the land, hunting, fishing, no roads, no money, no internet, no electricity, no running water, is still perfectly normal.
Damn I would have died at 2 months of age. I’m 33 years old now.
Edit: Spent a month on a ventilator due to a bronchitis infection.
No anti-biotics… rip.
Nothing like vibing out around the campfire as you slowly die from a parasitic infection after drinking contaminated water
You just had one job to do, defend from attacking tribes and here you are in the wigwam eating berries.
I’ve done some fairly intense survival-style camping. People who say stuff like this have never paired being cold with an empty stomach. Until you’ve realized you’re burning more calories trying to gather food than you are managing to get and just give up trying to eat, you can’t even begin to imagine what being a hunter-gatherer was like. Eat 20% of your normal intake for a few days then walk 10 miles before going back to your shitty camp to sleep on your hard-ass bed of sticks over some dry grass because the ground is cold enough that if you slept directly on it, you might not wake up in the morning. Wake up every 30-45 minutes at night to tend the fire or figure out what that noise was a few yards away. Do your best to put on weight because you know there is a good chance of not eating at all on any given day in the winter. Sun burn? Good news – it’s going to get infected. Same for stepping on a sharp rock, walking through bramble, eating shellfish that was above the high tide line, eating an animal that was already ill before you hunted it… ooops, forgot about snakes, spiders, centipedes, scorpions, ticks, chiggers, fire ants, wasps, and any animal that you happened to startle, get to close to its nest/den/offspring, or just hates life.
You can literally live that lifestyle now if you wanted to. Good luck without modern medicine, alloyed metals, clothing and a stable clean food and water resource.
And a typical lifespan of less than 30 years. Sounds awesome.
I get the “pure vibes” idea, but in practice, I think it would be a rough road.
No medicine…
Not surprised every self righteous libertarian turd in here is willfully misinterpreting this. We could have most of modern technologies conveniences along with the scenario he’s describing, but most of you are narcissists who enjoy class hierarchy and your position in it that lets you benefit from exerting dominance over others. Just say you’re a psychopath trained by capitalism to have no imagination for a better world and move on.
No one is stopping him from going “Into the Wild” but I’m sure he will turn back once he realised he couldn’t access Twitter.
“No poverty”? That sounds exactly like poverty. “I’m hungry but I can’t eat because the berries are hibernating for the winter. I didn’t catch a deer today on the hunting trip so I guess I’ll go to bed hungry and try again tomorrow. I hope the water i drank from the creek this afternoon doesn’t kill me. But that campfire story was pretty great”
Pure vibes and natural predators, sounds great unless you’ve ever seen what happens to a deer when it meets a bear or a pack of wolves
What about Fortnite
no porcelain throne…. hunting for food 24/7…. dying painfully from random shit… idk
Why not?
No vaccinations
No antibiotics
High infant mortality rate
You (or your S.O) much more likely to die in childbirth
Spending (wasting) your life worrying about feeding, clothing, sheltering yourself instead of more interesting pursuits.
Never traveling
Never seeing other cultures
Also…no porn
also dying in your thirdies cuz village healer put some mud into your open wounds to “cleans” it
You’re starving most of the time.
No jobs? LOL. The job is to get food or everyone starves. Ostracism was probably way more common too. Why is this twitter post on this sub again?
Yeah, capitalism sucks but I don’t want to be fighting off apex predators with a pointy stick either.
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I can imagine a time when people aren’t absolute morons.
Both scenarios are incompatible with reality, but we can dream.
There was also a less than 50% chance you live long enough to hit puberty and the average lifespan was 33.
Well, if you were born healthy then yeah, but if you were born with even a slight health issue… Nah, I would choose capitalism
Guy has the brain of a child
Yeah, pure vibes till the starving bear comes into your camp, eats your food, and kills half the people. But yeah keeping vibing. 😆
Catching salmon and finding berries seems like work. (A job)
Living in a cave feels like poverty (imo)
It is all fun and games until you have your first toothache.
I’d like to see how many seconds it would take for Robert to be pleading for a smartphone and access to the internet again if he was dumped in the middle of a remote location in some part of the world where living off the land, hunting, fishing, no roads, no money, no internet, no electricity, no running water, is still perfectly normal.
Damn I would have died at 2 months of age. I’m 33 years old now.
Edit: Spent a month on a ventilator due to a bronchitis infection.
No anti-biotics… rip.
Nothing like vibing out around the campfire as you slowly die from a parasitic infection after drinking contaminated water
You just had one job to do, defend from attacking tribes and here you are in the wigwam eating berries.
I’ve done some fairly intense survival-style camping. People who say stuff like this have never paired being cold with an empty stomach. Until you’ve realized you’re burning more calories trying to gather food than you are managing to get and just give up trying to eat, you can’t even begin to imagine what being a hunter-gatherer was like. Eat 20% of your normal intake for a few days then walk 10 miles before going back to your shitty camp to sleep on your hard-ass bed of sticks over some dry grass because the ground is cold enough that if you slept directly on it, you might not wake up in the morning. Wake up every 30-45 minutes at night to tend the fire or figure out what that noise was a few yards away. Do your best to put on weight because you know there is a good chance of not eating at all on any given day in the winter. Sun burn? Good news – it’s going to get infected. Same for stepping on a sharp rock, walking through bramble, eating shellfish that was above the high tide line, eating an animal that was already ill before you hunted it… ooops, forgot about snakes, spiders, centipedes, scorpions, ticks, chiggers, fire ants, wasps, and any animal that you happened to startle, get to close to its nest/den/offspring, or just hates life.
You can literally live that lifestyle now if you wanted to. Good luck without modern medicine, alloyed metals, clothing and a stable clean food and water resource.
And a typical lifespan of less than 30 years. Sounds awesome.
I get the “pure vibes” idea, but in practice, I think it would be a rough road.
No medicine…
Not surprised every self righteous libertarian turd in here is willfully misinterpreting this. We could have most of modern technologies conveniences along with the scenario he’s describing, but most of you are narcissists who enjoy class hierarchy and your position in it that lets you benefit from exerting dominance over others. Just say you’re a psychopath trained by capitalism to have no imagination for a better world and move on.
No one is stopping him from going “Into the Wild” but I’m sure he will turn back once he realised he couldn’t access Twitter.
“No poverty”? That sounds exactly like poverty. “I’m hungry but I can’t eat because the berries are hibernating for the winter. I didn’t catch a deer today on the hunting trip so I guess I’ll go to bed hungry and try again tomorrow. I hope the water i drank from the creek this afternoon doesn’t kill me. But that campfire story was pretty great”
Pure vibes and natural predators, sounds great unless you’ve ever seen what happens to a deer when it meets a bear or a pack of wolves
What about Fortnite
no porcelain throne…. hunting for food 24/7…. dying painfully from random shit… idk
Why not?
No vaccinations
No antibiotics
High infant mortality rate
You (or your S.O) much more likely to die in childbirth
Spending (wasting) your life worrying about feeding, clothing, sheltering yourself instead of more interesting pursuits.
Never traveling
Never seeing other cultures
Also…no porn
also dying in your thirdies cuz village healer put some mud into your open wounds to “cleans” it
You’re starving most of the time.
No jobs? LOL. The job is to get food or everyone starves. Ostracism was probably way more common too. Why is this twitter post on this sub again?
Yeah, capitalism sucks but I don’t want to be fighting off apex predators with a pointy stick either.