[JimSEA]

A hunter-gatherer economy is utterly incapable of supporting an advanced civilization.

What you say is clearly true. However, don't you on occasions lean back and think, "Hmmm, a life of hunting and fishing, no yard to mow, no job to work at, just hunting and fishing . . . "

[ApplegateRanch]

However, don't you on occasions lean back and think, "Hmmm, a life of hunting and fishing, no yard to mow, no job to work at, just hunting and fishing . . . "

Not if I have to make the line, make the hook, make the pole, and make everything I need to make those things....

And that is just the fishing.