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Re:Maybe you should do less 'work' by svnt on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:31PM (#30835864)
> living on average 25 years, starving most of your life, having high chance of being literal slave not figurative, being ostracized and killed for any silly reason by local community, being dumped into trash or simply killed if local community found you were not useful or weak

This is all outdated colonial myth. You should turn on your educational updates.

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Re:Maybe you should do less 'work' by ozim on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:53PM (#30836091)
I agree average lifespan of 25 is a bit unfair as that was mostly because of infant death rates.

But I still think hunter-gatherer that broke his leg had maybe couple of months to live.

Peasants in middle ages in Europe that were not able to "simply" change jobs or move out to live wherever they want. That would have to put up with abuse from land owners and other "nobles".

The same hell if one would be a woman in past times - not just no ability to vote - just daily abuse as in rape and violence.

I would like to see some real arguments for "life was better back then, now we are mindless drones".

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