The reason why civilization is what it is today is because people didn’t like what civilization was before. (Yes, drastic simplification and yes we have lots of problems today, but at least everyone is less likely to die of disease and starvation.)
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CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 16 hours agoI’m so sick of people idolizing shit like this. Go walk around a fucking cemetery from the 1800s or early. All you see is headstones with several dead babies on them. All of whom would have survived if they were born today.
Literally every society from all corners of the globe had a 50% mortality rate for children prior to 1950.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Being nomadic hunter/gatherers was so amazing, we invented subsistence agriculture just to get away from it. And people would abandon subsidence agriculture in favour of a career as a beggar/day laborer.
So yeah, have fun going back to that.
plutopos@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I know at least two family members who would have died if they had been born even ten years earlier