The point is people died very frequently and in no way could we sustain the current population if we went back to those practices. Even if some people got older, a tribe needs a huge surplus of young people to survive. And everyone had to pull their weight one way or another. If people stopped working today, most would absolutely die off and that's it. It is beyond me how some seem to think it would be some kind of paradise where everyone has everything they need. Delusional.

Your username checks out buddy. I'm not enslaved btw.

You're saying there is a giant glowing orb in the sky watching you all day, and you're not allowed to look at it?

You clearly have never have touched a plant. The amount of work required to farm and feed yourself in a single year is immensely labor intensive. That's just one person. Try doing that with a family of just 3 or 4.

Ok listen, we're 8.3 billion people on this world. If everyone goes back to growing and gathering their own food, there is no fucking way you can sustain this population. There is not enough land for everyone to grow their food. There is not enough food to gather if everyone depends on it. There will be a massive fight over resources, where a very small subset will come out on top, a massive amount of people just die and then a good portion of people who will try to survive by serving the winning group.

And no matter where you land, IF you even happen to be the lucky one who survived, you have enough land nobody is strong enough to take from you and you happen to resources in your area you can gather, doing that will be a full time job, massively labor intensive. No matter if your 'regard' this a job or not.

BTW. You can live your dream of gathering your own food right now. It's called being homeless. Knock yourself out.