• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Eh… it’s hard now because we don’t have the patterns or training or tools anymore. Previous people were well prepared.

    Now, it was RISKY. People died all the time. But that doesn’t mean they worked 20 hour days.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      55 minutes ago

      … this is such a reductionist view of human survival that my head is beginning to hurt trying to come up with an answer to it.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, we don’t have the tools for day to day survivalist life en masse. That’s why it feels hard.

        We also don’t have the tools to cut marble by hand using copper. Because why would we? They aren’t needed so no one is making them.

        Knowledge gets lost when it’s no longer relevant. This isn’t news.

        • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
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          5 hours ago

          That’s not true. I’ve literally seen someone make a 1 ton brick by hand.

          It’s this nostalgia of a simpler time that’s actually toxic. Tribal societies would always adapt new tech. BECAUSE it helped survivability.