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did the cavemen have it right?
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Just musing today about society in general and wondered if maybe they had it right back when there was communal living? The advantages as I see it are:
Old people and singles wouldn't get lonely
Men would get plenty of male bonding
Woman would get plenty of female bonding
Kids would get a more even upbringing rather than just the thoughts of their parents
Couples could get couple time as there would be plenty of babysitters who knew the children
Kids from one parent households would get access to the time of the gender of adult that they are missing
The responsibilities of taking care of disabled/elderly people would be shared
Shopping/Cooking would take on economies of scale as would travel
there could be skills sharing
disadvantages would be a lack of privacy and autonomy
What do you think - is it time we took life back to olden times? lol
Any other advantages or disadvantages??
Old people and singles wouldn't get lonely
Men would get plenty of male bonding
Woman would get plenty of female bonding
Kids would get a more even upbringing rather than just the thoughts of their parents
Couples could get couple time as there would be plenty of babysitters who knew the children
Kids from one parent households would get access to the time of the gender of adult that they are missing
The responsibilities of taking care of disabled/elderly people would be shared
Shopping/Cooking would take on economies of scale as would travel
there could be skills sharing
disadvantages would be a lack of privacy and autonomy
What do you think - is it time we took life back to olden times? lol
Any other advantages or disadvantages??
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We have to be careful about generalisations. On the whole pre-agricultural societies had to cooperate to survive. I agree that there must be huge advantages in having people nearby, sharing resources and working on communal tasks together.
We don't know that this happened all the time, and for every loved-up tribal feast of mammoth there could have been dozens of outsiders who were literally frozen out.
But even sophisticated societies like ancient Egypt relied on huge efforts of social cooperation to flourish. We can learn from these. And I wonder if it's no coincidence that ancient Egypt never developed a coin -based economy.
We don't know that this happened all the time, and for every loved-up tribal feast of mammoth there could have been dozens of outsiders who were literally frozen out.
But even sophisticated societies like ancient Egypt relied on huge efforts of social cooperation to flourish. We can learn from these. And I wonder if it's no coincidence that ancient Egypt never developed a coin -based economy.
thanks mosaic, I think there is definitely some benefits to it. It was a combination of my OH planning a hill walk with a a couple of our neighbours and thinking about another neighbour who has 2 kids that are heading out of control and could probably have done with a bit of a male influence on them that got me thinking....
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