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Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1
depending how far back in history you choose to go, of course, this assumption may be much more inaccurate than one might think, imho
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well you could argue people might have been "happier" or "better off," which I think is what vix was saying, but those things are kind of hard to judge if for no other reason because nearly all recorded history until a few hundred years ago focuses exclusively on the rich and powerful and is dismissive of how all regular folks lived. But we can actually tell a lot about the physical factors people were exposed to from skeletal remains, and it's pretty safe to say that in general terms, the past was a lot more physically brutal.
Changes in labor organization, medicine, and nutrition have completely altered the physical hardships we are exposed to, especially in rich countries