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I can't believe that people unironically believe that humans lived unfulfilling lives until mass consumerism started. Incredible.

Just because we don't know what daily life looked like doesn't mean "nothing happened".

Nevermind that "nothing happening" sounds positively amazing, especially if my surroundings were a bucolic river side European village.

Farm work done? Picked all my parasites out of my hair and clothes? Now to settle down for the very-zen "sit by the fire, sing some peasant songs and do nothing" -- sounds amazing

Maybe we can have modern medicine AND no social media.

Yes, because those are clearly the only two choices.

Touche.

So what’s the takeaway, life a bitch and then you die?