The life of a hunter gatherer or a subsistence farmer is not very appealing. Technology definitely has its drawbacks but no one wants to go back to the past.
Quite right.
But what has historically happened to hunger-gatherers such as American Indians or Australian Aborigines when they are forced to settle, even with vastly more comfortable lives materially?
The lives led by those with no real role in society, whether in an American ghetto, on an Indian reservation in USA or Canada, or in a British slum, are not attractive.
People have historically gotten much if not all of their sense of purpose from filling an economic need, their job, if you will. A Comanche on the reservation today has a great deal more and better “stuff” than his ancestors did when they were Lords of the Plains. But he’ll often be the first to agree his life has a lot less purpose,
My prediction is that for more and more people there will BE no economic need they are capable of filling. How do these people find meaning or purpose in their lives? History is not encouraging in this regard.