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>Then it's a bias I freely admit to. Would I want to live in a subsistence
>society? No. No technology, little shelter, little or no medical resources,
>very little literature or intellectual life beyond the tribal religions and
>folk beliefs, short lifespan, subject to near-extinction when the weather
>turns bad for too long...
The fact of the matter is that vicious contagious diseases are a product of urbanization. Hunter-gatherers in fact (depending on climate) usually live pretty easy, work-free lives. Bushmen work something like 8 hours a week, The people who have to worry about bad weather are farmers.
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>You might as well say that our dislike for a fascist dictatorship is a
>"bias" against it.
Subsistence society is an economy. Fascism is a government.
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