I feel the issue we experience in the modern world that it just feels unnatural and alienating to be surrounded by thousands and thousands of people we don't know at all and who don't know us. In a small tribe you have the comfort of knowing everyone around you fairly well. The modern world is so anonymous.

True, but also small town life sure isn't for everyone. Megacities exist because a lot of people actually like living in them.

With the difference that the larger the cities, the less we know the people around us and socialize with them. Totally different if you live in a tribe of 200 people or a mega city with 20 million people around you.

I don't agree. It's a description of a simple hunter gatherer life. Why do you say this has never existed?

Why would you think that a neolithic existence is simple and free from politics etc. Still humans.

That sounds nice. Which parts of the globe do you recommend for such a lifestyle? I assume your not a digital nomad but rather deeply embedded in your environment? Would love to learn more about this lifestyle. Want online resources you can recommend?

Love it and totally agree. The comfort we think we need is nothing else than hedonic adaptation.

I don’t disagree that I could survive without the comfort, and I would probably get used to the discomfort after a while and wouldn’t think about it as much.

What I don’t understand is why it is bad to have gotten used to modern luxuries, or why my life would be better if I gave those up and lived more primitively.

There is a reason we created all of these creature comforts for ourselves, and why very few people actually go through with giving it all up and returning to a more primitive lifestyle. Those things are nice, and most people want them. That is why they were invented in the first place!

Probably because we waste years and years of our lifes chasing these things instead of being present and enjoying life as it is?

The title says hunter gatherers. That's totally different from life 150 years ago. It's even different from the medieval or agrarian iron age times.

>> The title says hunter gatherers.

Right, and also adds "with space age tools".

Tribal hunter gatherers cultures (and not agrarian cultures) are very egalitarian. Social mobility is not relevant at all because there is no stratification. You are just you and I think this is some of the beauty we in modern world yearn for. Not only people today but also pre industrially. In Europe we left this hunter gatherer lifestyle several thousand years ago...

Not true. Raw materials depend on energy to extract and are geopolitically not a straight forward thing given that most materials are concentrated in few locations on our planet.

I wonder these specific data center jobs seem to be very cycle specific and will all fall away as soon as we have constructed "enough" data centers.

Interesting bar.

Interesting way to say "never".