I don’t think your question can be truly answered, but as a thought experiment, do you suppose the average person 200 years ago experienced more, less, or the s

I don’t think your question can be truly answered, but as a thought experiment, do you suppose the average person 200 years ago experienced more, less, or the same amount of stress that we do? It’s tempting to say less, since they arguably had “simpler lives.” But it’s also easy to say “more,” since they had a much more present risk of death than we do. My hunch is that stress is (mostly) relative, and that (outside of trauma) how much one experiences is determined more by ones worldview than ones circumstances.