• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And lived to the ripe old age of nineteen🤣

    “People had it better before modern society” is one of the dumbest beliefs.

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      1 year ago

      The reason average life expectancy used to be so low, is because infant mortality was ridiculously high.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I know, but the overall point still stands. Life was not better back then. That’s not a gotcha, it’s a technicality.

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        You’re also missing the distribution of those life expectancies. While everyone is crapping on the wealthy, who do you think was able to live to a ripe old age? Who do you think was more likely to die at birth or as a kid, or young adult?

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      Are we going to let this perverse society take every improvement we make and make us pay for it? We all work for the common good and we have the right to reap the benefits, not be forced to adapt to a system that exploits us just because someone sometime ago invented penicillin and so that good must be offset by an equal sacrifice?