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[–] observes_depths@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago

Why don't they return to traditional living? Because the knowledge is gone and the land has been colonised. I'm not saying it was an easy life but the life expectancy was actually much better before colonisation, much better than 40 and certainly better than Europe's poor at the time.

You also can't judge a culture for not inventing the wheel. It's like saying Europeans are inferior because they hadn't invented the boomerang or water tree. Europeans didn't need those things just as Aboriginals didn't need to build roads and haul cargo up and down them every day.