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[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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

[–] explodicle@local106.com 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Blackout@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

but they didn't have iphones