What's more, I don't think we should be so quick to criticize their way of life considering that modern society has more than enough health problems in its own right.
Uh, while it's true that current society has by no means "eradicated disease entirely" we've eradicated a FEW diseases and nearly tripled average life expectancy from the hunter/gatherer days.
You're correct that a communal property system dominated most of early human evolutionary history. It's also a true statement that early human evolutionary history was a dirty, ugly, painful, constant battle with disease, starvation, and predators. Sustainable? A society where a year with not enough rain wipes out a third of your population is not, in fact, sustainable.
If you were to make a graph showing the average human standard of living and also plot the overall value and respect for property rights, I'm guessing they'd be practically the same line, a steady trend uphill until around the 1920s when the progressives came in and absolutely wrecked everything. Perhaps you believe those two things are totally unrelated and its all a massive coincidence. I do not.
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