Subnostr

You underestimate how shitty human existence used to be and how many died young.

And that isn't even accounting for the wars, with their mind-boggling casualty numbers.

No I know how shitty human existence was, and not that long ago. But they had a reason to keep going. People forget, the wild West was only a couple hundred years ago. We were savages. Life expectancy and suffering don't equate to happiness. I suppose when I say happiness, I really mean "meaning"

People would be a lot happier today if they had more kids. Again, people in undeveloped nations, with low life expectancy, very very hard existences, are happier than a lot of westerners that have nice cushy lives.

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Laeserin 1y ago

They actually have a weird, temporary advantage over us, as they have many of the things that actually improved our well-being (canalisation and sanitation, basic medical care, adequate food supplies, electricity, widespread literacy and understanding of fertility, etc.) without as much of what the Germans call Wohlstandsverwahrlosung.