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Seems a little romanticized. Kind of like people who like the idea of homesteading, until they do it. Everything is a tradeoff of problems, never an elimination of all problems. I'd prefer to have modern societal problems, but power to you if you can make hunter gathering or homesteading work for you.

Or you know, the problem the people in the article encounter is primarily other people of a neighboring tribe who are killing them. 30% of their males died from violence. They worked less than 40 hours a week because food was abundant, easy to get, and their population was low. If food was scarce, they probably die of starvation or war.

For real. They spend their entire lives mostly outdoors in the Amazon. I may have 1 2 week vacation to the Amazon in my entire life if I am lucky.

> The hunter-gatherer bands still roaming the Amazon don't have to worry about unemployment, layoffs, crime or a host of other maladies - their only problem is encounters with murderous gold miners from the "developed" world.

Isn't that a kind of crime?

I daresay they have other issues too, like tropical or introduced diseases, parasites, disability, famines, substance addiction…

That is a radical opinion you have there sir, I think I agree with you.