“Work,” following herds of game and hunting, is not the same thing as schlepping it to some multinational soulless corp 5 days or more a week for what is now approaching starvation wages for many.

You're right, it's much fucking harder and 'starvation wages' in the context of hunter-gatherer society is fucking laughable.

Don't mistake an unfair scenario in the modern day with it being worse than the past.

The hunter gatherers are understood to have had more free time,

Slightly more, yes.

and a higher standard of living in many respects,

Fucking what.

Material accumulation was only possible with the advent of sedentary societies, which were overwhelmingly based on subsistence farming.

than their ancestors that started to farm, and were subsequently conquered by organized groups of armed men that subjugated them.

The 'neat' notion of hunter-gatherer societies being overwhelmingly conquered is deeply outdated - as is, for that matter, the notion of a strict and immediate demarcation between hunter-gatherer and sedentary farming societies in most regions.