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This is a pretty meaningless statement. Where? To whom? According to what metric?

• abenga 2y ago
  46% of children didn't see their 5th birthday in the early 1800s. It had gone down by 1890, but still in the mid thirties. Romanticizing those days is extremely silly.
  • codr7 1y ago
    I'm sure there were aspects of life back then that could be said to be better than today. More human contact, more time in nature, less technology, less stress, less pollution and so on.
    • abenga 1y ago
      Those aspects are mostly irrelevant if half of people who are born die before they enjoy them. More time in nature => this is neutral, not necessarily a positive, depends if you like that. Less technology => definitely a negative, I know when I'd rather have been born if this is the only change. Less pollution => Depending on the cutoff, most people today suffer less pollution than then. I'd rather the current global levels of pollution than actually cooking with coal/wood in my kitchen. The latter will probably kill you faster.