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That's not the point of that passage, here's the rest

> Never mind the struggle to meet Maslow’s tenets of survival: being wild verges on illegal. There are limits to how long you can spend on public land. Fires are frequently prohibited, and hunting is closely circumscribed.

It's not that the life of being a hunter-gatherer is hard, it's that the ability to even live that life is hard to come by.




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