[bpodgursky]

> Modern life is far more mentally taxing and stressful

No, I'm not conceding this point. It ignores that our ancestors evolved large brains (note, before agriculture, _they were even larger_) to deal with a wildly complex natural environment. Knowing the details of the dozens of food sources necessary to survive. How to deal with different seasons. Which of hundreds of animals were edible, which would eat you, and which were fine to ignore.

Life was, in every single way, harder and more complex before technology. Trying to equate our comfortable and materially opulent existence with theirs is wrong.