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Still better than what most of the people before us lived through. It's just that our parents were especially lucky with the time period they lived in.
The idea that people before us lived worse lives is one often used to obscure the clinical nature of standards we attribute to quality of life such as lifespan, infant mortality, food security, and housing. This is because it allows corporations to trivialize the impact of doubling the workload by normalizing the 40 hour work week and housework and child care, what used to be two people's worth of work, into one.
Are we living 'better' lives? On paper, sure. Are we living happier lives? That's hard to say.
I dunno I prefer not being murdered for practicing (or even converting from) the wrong religion, dying of plague or famine, or being enslaved for economic convenience. But maybe that's just me.
That really doesn't narrow it down, if we are talking about the past or present.
Yes but I'd much rather prefer wandering through a bountiful forest to a stream crammed with fish, build a lean-to from what's around me, and sleep cozy and warm under pine boughs on a moss mattress.
Agriculture broke us.
And be always afraid of being killed by a tiger or other predators. Constantly worrying about not finding enough food. Having insects crawl all over and inside you while sleeping or a snake choking you to death.
Yeah I call bullshit. What's stopping you from living your dream if it's that great?
Private property laws and the collapse of the biosphere
R.I.P. saimen choked to death on a larger than a average black python one Saturday night in the truck stop.