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Currently, alcohol consumption is quite unevenly spread: an 80/20 rule applies I think (and in my country, it's the higher educated who drink most). I wonder if
by brnt 3y ago
Currently, alcohol consumption is quite unevenly spread: an 80/20 rule applies I think (and in my country, it's the higher educated who drink most). I wonder if this was true in the past, where beer might have been the only way to drink uncontaminated liquids.
- danielbln 3y agoBeer being a way of drinking uncontaminated water is a myth that somehow sticks around, similar to the belief that people in the middle ages thought the world is flat. Fresh water outsiderof cities was abundant, and inside cities there was usually a system of wells, often running water wells at that.
- bregma 3y agoAH yes, John Snow and the Broad Street pump. A well-known source of drinking water inside a city.
- manfre 3y agoPeople in the today ages believe the world is flat. Given population difference and the Internet giving ignorant people wider reach, it's possible there are more flat Earth believers today than there were in the middle ages.