Lol. We can sustain and oversupply right now BECAUSE people do their jobs. This becomes absolutely impossible if people just stopped. Do you even have the slightest idea how many people have to do their job in order to build the simplest of machinery needed for modern farming?
Who is building the machines and equipment needed for that? Ok, just for fun - let's imagine someone still does that in your world without jobs, why would they just give it to you or someone else? In exchange for some bones and pretty stones you've found in your backyard? What can you possibly provide that's worth even a fucking tractor? This is so delusional I have really no words for it.
If you think it's so easy and great then go get your like-minded buddies and just do it. What's stopping you? Nobody will care if you play somewhere out in the wilderness.
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.
Your username checks out buddy. I'm not enslaved btw.
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.
This is a romantic view on that. In reality, 'old' meant 30 years old and then people died pretty soon. There were no real old people. And the very young also died left and right, that's why women had to throw out one child after another just so the tribe wouldn't go extinct.
Yeah, thanks for even more BS. Nothing I said is linked to capitalism, at all.
Enlighten us, how would it go in your mind. Why would you not just fucking die, who will provide for you and why.
You seem to have absolutely no idea how many people just died away in those times. You need food and health care, nobody will just give that to you. It will be survival of the fittest again, much more extreme then what we have today.
You seem to assume that everybody will have enough of everything and we all live in happyness and joy, only doing what you love.
That's of course BS. You will be fighting for your survival and chances are you'll lose that fight. Only thanks to our civilization it is possible at all to sustain that many people.
The image accurately depicts what would happen to 98% of all people: lying dead by the river, starved or killed or died by disease.
Yes I do and to my delight I' ve yet to encounter a situation where I can't use the editor I prefer anyway. Joy.
Ah, looks like Doc took some other model this time now that DeLoreans are so unreasonably priced these days
Have you heard about Android?