The post above still shows this to be false, even accounting for child mortality. And what exactly do you imagine the quality of life was like for people in a s

The post above still shows this to be false, even accounting for child mortality. And what exactly do you imagine the quality of life was like for people in a society with massive child mortality? To say that the past was anything but a terrible place to live is to blind yourself to horrific realities about the way people have lived up until now. To imagine life was much like it is today is a massive anachronism, based often on one’s ignorance of the details of life in past societies that one pastes over with their own situation.