I think innovation is easier when you’re not constantly preoccupied with survival, having to spend every waking moment worrying about starvation or predators or disease or freezing to death probably puts quite a bit hamper on what creative new ideas you are able to come up with and try.
I think innovation is easier when you’re not constantly preoccupied with survival, having to spend every waking moment worrying about starvation or predators or disease or freezing to death probably puts quite a bit hamper on what creative new ideas you are able to come up with and try.
Most hunter gatherers had a shitload of free time. Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything includes a bunch of references about this.
I love that book