The Hunter Games

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Some people say that the advent of farming gave people more leisure time to build up civilization, but hunter-gatherers actually have far more leisure time than farmers do, and more still than modern people in the industrialized world. Some even used their leisure time to gamble. Jeff and Anthony discuss time management of ancient peoples, and how that applies to us.

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0:00.0	If you're enjoying the show and you'd like to get more, maybe you want to get bonus episodes,
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0:08.8	Jeff and other fans of the show. The way to find out how to do that is to go to patreon.com
0:14.3	slash we have concerns.
0:30.3	Glow it. Glow it everybody. Glow it. This is we have concerns. Hi Jeff can I have any
0:34.5	carbonic. Hello concerned citizens. I think we all feel that these modern days with all of our
0:43.1	technology. I always start that way, don't I? How do I do? Why do I do that? How do you,
0:48.3	how do you not be a stereotypical dad for one episode? How do you not do it? I've been so
0:54.2	dadding this week. I've been all by myself. Anyway, you shouldn't be all by yourself of your dad.
1:01.1	The child should be around you. Oh shit. That's where is your child? That's a great question.
1:06.8	I mean a solid question. I should answer that question. All right. I mean, I don't give a fuck.
1:14.0	I think we think that you're fine. I'm fine because of all of our modern advances that we live very
1:20.8	leisure-filled lives in general compared to our ancestors that we have we have to find to find leisure
1:29.3	filled. I define leisure filled as I don't know not lashing together leaves to make a hut. Right.
1:36.0	Like to make a lean to in historical terms and killing a band. The grand scope of of our evolution.
1:45.0	We have evolved to the point where we we have a lot of time to hang out and just recreate.
1:51.8	That's why we have culture, right? That's why we have movies and TV and books and theater and
1:57.8	all the things that make up cultures because we don't have to worry about eating. I don't think we're
2:03.7	at the most leisurely point in history. When do you think the most leisurely point in history was?
2:08.2	Maybe well if you were born right gender, right race, right country, right and right income bracket.
2:19.2	Yeah. I think maybe or inheritance bracket. I think maybe like 60s, 70s. Hmm. Maybe. Interesting.
2:26.6	You know, like those madmen days of like once you hit middle management you go into your office
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