FuWeiShi's comments

On: Facebook loses users for the first time

[FuWeiShi]

And of course, IIRC, the "sugar-free" alternatives promote insulin resistance just as much (if in conjunction with food) sans Stevia.

On: The history of the end of poverty has just begun

[FuWeiShi]

There's a problem in your assumptions though.

Modern examples of tribal living are after the vast majority of fertile lands have been colonized by "civilization".

Imagine judging the wealth of a place like America by its Indian reservations.

[akiselev → FuWeiShi]

The (vast?) majority of pre-industrial tribes I remember studying in anthropology live in very fertile areas like the Amazon, Pacific islands, and the mountainous jungles of central Africa or Papua New Guinea. These areas can support small scale agriculture but for various reasons are impractical to exploit economically.

Anthropologists have gone to great lengths to study tribes that have had little to no interaction with the outside world so our understanding of their quality of life isn't as biased as you'd think.

On: The history of the end of poverty has just begun

[FuWeiShi]

Because human existence, and happiness, presupposes a social existence for the vast majority of humans.

Hermit in the woods is an erroneous analogy to primitive tribes.