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   HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 22:58:39 JST HeavenlyPossum

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   Is hunting for the hunter-gatherer fun? Is it leisure? Mises would call it “work,” a means to the end of engaging in non-work. But it seems to me that Mises was wrong, in a trivially obvious sense, which one could readily see if one accounted for all the people in capitalist countries who *hunt animals for recreational sport.*

   The fact that hunter-gatherers hunt to eat doesn’t seem particularly relevant; nature does not engage in compulsion. Many of our entertainments satisfy our bodily needs. The key distinction is whether someone else is compelling the activity, under threat of violence, and whether someone else is directing the activity.

   To be alive is to revel in the exercise of our faculties. Fun, leisure, play: these are not what we labor towards but rather the default of being alive.

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