Reply #23: "Nature, which actually provides anyone's needs quite adequately" [View All]

The woman talked about in the OP may well be far out of touch with what day-to-day reality is like for ordinary people, but your view of "Nature" (with a capital N) goes a bit too far the other direction.

What "Nature" will provide a human being, stripped of all of the tools and materials and clothing and knowledge we have at hand in our technological civilization, adding back all of the knowledge and skills you'd have if you'd been raised since birth to survive in the wild, is just enough sustenance to get beyond the edge of starvation most of the time, little relief from injury and disease and parasites when they strike, and an average expected life span somewhere between 20 to 40 years.

I suppose that's "adequate" for perpetuation of the species, but far from "quite adequate" for what I'd call a good life.