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That's because you're forgetting the part where all you do is look for food so you don't starve.
Every. Single. Day.
Plus the hurting and dying from diseases we can prevent with OTC medicine.
Yeah, but that was just for about 15-20 hours a week. And besides, we are evolutionarily optimised for a lot of movement. I, at least, feel that the more exercise I get, the happier I am.
The diseases part I can get, but overall our lifestyles were a lot better for us since that was what we evolved for, so overall we were a lot healthier while we were alive (additionally, because we weren't stationary and moved the whole time and because the groups were small, diseases were less prevalent). I think a short, happy life is way better than a long, miserable one.
Edit: There's this book by the anthropologist James Suzman which deals with just this subject called Affluence Without Abundance. I can recommend it, but here's a short NPR article in which he is interviewed and the key points are summarised: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/551018759/are-hunter-gatherers-the-happiest-humans-to-inhabit-earth