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People tend to not appreciate the struggles that the people before us had. We are looking at their situation with the absolute knowledge that things got better
by mywittyname 4y ago
People tend to not appreciate the struggles that the people before us had. We are looking at their situation with the absolute knowledge that things got better.
We distort the lives of those in the past much in the same way do the people we follow on social media.
- nostrademons 4y agoAlso survivorship bias. We tend to forget the people that died penniless and alone.