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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.
That's also not very accurate. Old = 30 is why there are many ways to measure.
6 kids dying before the age of 4 and one guy living to 60 means the average age is 30.
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.
You trust info from the same ones that enslave you?
Your username checks out buddy. I'm not enslaved btw.
That's what they all say
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?