There were a couple of societies up until like the 90s where if someone was trying to bully you or order you around you could just pick up your 50-60ish pounds of tools and posessions, give that person the finger, and walk a day or two to go live with your cousins or neighbors or whatever. The environment had enough food, and population density was low enough, that no one could easily monopolize and control resources. Afaik that mostly changed as neighboring farmers and pastoralists moved in to the region, but it's something that existed in some places within many of our lifetimes.

You can see some echoes of it in places like the GDR; The whole meme about women having better sex bc they could just leave shitty relationships due to the GDR's housing, jobs, and childcare policies. Shitty men couldn't control women when the women could just pack up and go somewhere else with relatively little difficulty.