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Was it more terrible? You certainly had more organic social connections and family support. Physically tougher than a modern white collar job? Sure. Better than
by bbqfog 2y ago
Was it more terrible? You certainly had more organic social connections and family support. Physically tougher than a modern white collar job? Sure. Better than commuting and working for some shitty boss though!
- Asraelite 2y agoTry asking that after spending a while living in a tenement building with 3 people per room and frequent outbreaks of dysentery and smallpox.
- bbqfog 2y agoPeople still live like this today.
- cowgoesmoo 2y agoextremely rare in countries with falling birth rates
- ipaddr 2y agoWe take so much for granted. Living in a world without electricity, medicine, food scarcity, lack of safety net. Family didn't offer as much support as it appears. Average kids are working farms rich children are sent away to be raised. The social bonds of the modern world still exist in the same places as the past. It starts with the church.. so if you crave the social connections you can still go to church to find it.
- brendoelfrendo 2y agoYou almost had a coherent point until the last sentence. I'll take my social bonds without the side-order of dogma, thanks.
- ipaddr 2y agoWhat bonds people in the past is religious dogma. We removed it and we wonder why our social bonds are so weak. I'm not suggesting we go back but we have nothing to replace it. The one thing a church did was welcome in everyone. We don't have places like that anymore.
- brendoelfrendo 2y agoI guess I have to tell my local card shop to stop welcoming everyone on Commander night, because you're only allowed to do that if you're a church.
- ipaddr 2y agoWelcoming people with money who buy cards as a promotion to sell goods. It's not a place to hold a wedding or funeral. You can't go inside and sit down without someone trying to sell you something. Some form of community can happen at a card shop. I use to hang around one when a was younger. Also got kicked out every now and then for hanging out too much.
- brendoelfrendo 2y agoI got married in a public park. It was free and everyone can convene there. What it doesn't do is insulate you from people you may find disagreeable or distasteful, which a church does.
- ipaddr 2y agoMost places require a permit but aside from that, that's a personal event you invited people you know to. Everyone can't convene there. It's a one time event and because you pick the guests it does insulate you from people you find disagreeable.
- brendoelfrendo 2y ago