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Where? When?
Also I call bullshit on the whole premise. Effort is effort. I'm just as exhausted after a day of doing things for myself as doing things for money.
I grew up farming for some of our food. If you think that ain't work, that ain't tiring, exhausting, I got a bridge to sell you.
Food ain't free - it requires effort and time.
Food was free when we were gatherers, then someone put up a fence around their agriculture.
You do realize that unstructured gathering only provides a subsistence diet, right? And also typically requires seasonal migration? And basically all of your time every day?
Which is to say, rather than being "free", gathering costs the time of almost every person in a society, and also requires that society to be regularly mobile, and also shortens lifespans due to malnutrition.
Well actually, evidence shows that gatherers were "working" less than 8 hours a day, way less, and most of that work was basically fucking around. The rest was pure rest.
True about seasonal mobility though, it looks like
Do you know how many hours a day lions sleep?