How Many Hours Did Ancient Humans Actually Work?
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How Many Hours Did Ancient Humans Actually Work?
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Somebody went to the Kalahari with a stopwatch and timed it. The answer was about two and
a half hours a day, and it started an argument that is still running.
This video gives both sides honestly: why that number is too low, what it misses, and what
the real difference actually is. Then the part that matters — why nobody in that world
worked more than they needed to, what storage changed, and why early farmers ended up
shorter, sicker and busier than the foragers they replaced.
00:00 Somebody counted your hours
00:30 Somebody counted theirs too
02:30 The thing that actually differs
05:00 Why we did it anyway
07:30 The full basket
09:30 A day that ends