I think you overstate how wonderful hunter-gatherer life was, even in the good times. No, you didn’t have to work 60 hour weeks and suck up to the boss, but you did have to conform to the norms of your tribe or you would find it impossible to get a wife, be shunned by, what was effectively, everyone in existence, or even be cast out to die, alone. Getting on in modern society is much less onerous.
I think you overstate how wonderful hunter-gatherer life was, even in the good times. No, you didn’t have to work 60 hour weeks and suck up to the boss, but you did have to conform to the norms of your tribe or you would find it impossible to get a wife, be shunned by, what was effectively, everyone in existence, or even be cast out to die, alone. Getting on in modern society is much less onerous.