- Though hunter gatherers are very different from us there's a lot we can learn from them. Human beings seem to be wired to work super hard and then be lazy. In hunter gatherer societies typically they would have people working super hard and then taking some time off. - This kind of makes sense in terms of how we feel in today's day and age and how often we want to take vacation or time off after working super hard for some time. --- "Paradoxically, it is hard work that explains hunter-gatherer laziness. In humans, a species hard-wired for work, laziness is not a luxury, it’s a necessity: we must relax and save energy when we can. Stone Age Economics is rich in examples of historical impressions of foragers that are highly polarised, alternating between the vigour of the food quest and the leisure of camp life." - [Link](http://aeon.co/essays/what-hunter-gatherers-demonstrate-about-work-and-satisfaction) "The anthropologist Jerome Lewis described a Mbendjele forager who would have made an excellent capitalist: this man worked hard, too hard. He hunted all the time. He hunted so much that it started to bother his campmates. By hunting so much, it was said, he was elevating himself above others. He was eventually ostracised from the group." - [Link](http://aeon.co/essays/what-hunter-gatherers-demonstrate-about-work-and-satisfaction)