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> Watching your children die due to diseases that are totally trivial in our non-hunter-gatherer society makes you happy. oooookaaaay... FFS In fairness, peopl
by dpark 9y ago
> Watching your children die due to diseases that are totally trivial in our non-hunter-gatherer society makes you happy. oooookaaaay... FFS
In fairness, people not packed into cities don’t have exactly the same issues with childhood diseases.
I don’t disagree with your sentiment, by the way. I just don’t think it’s directly comparable that way.
It’s also worth noting that many societies are not hunter gatherer and have high child mortality rates. The road from “tribal” to “modern” is full of dysentery.
- austenallred 9y agoRegardless of how you look at the statistics, modern humans are healthier and live longer on average by every measure
- gyrgtyn 9y agoThe 1st world at least
- riffraff 9y agono, even in the second (the ex-communist block) and the third (south america, africa, and non aligned countries in general). Just check one of the Hans Rosling videos on TED[0]: almost everywhere life expectancy has increased, child mortality has dropped, education has risen. [0] https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling