Matt Bango

“Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The hunter-gatherer way of life differed significantly from region to region and from season to season, but on the whole foragers seem to have enjoyed a more comfortable and rewarding lifestyle than most of the peasants, shepherds, labourers and office clerks who followed in their footsteps.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Sapiens did not forage only for food and materials. They foraged for knowledge as well.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“While people in today’s affluent societies work an average of forty to forty-five hours a week, and people in the developing world work sixty and even eighty hours a week, hunter-gatherers living today in the most inhospitable of habitats – such as the Kalahari Desert – work on average for just thirty-five to forty-five hours a week.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind