Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain

Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by troupe on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:11PM (#37528550)

Well life expectancy was only 37 years in the 1700s as well. So for an adult, 14 years was basically the rest of their life.

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Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by JoeAltmaier on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:16PM (#37528601)

For an adult, life expectancy then was 55 or better!

See, infant mortality was shit back then which accounted for a big bias in that lifetime '37'. If you survived childhood then you did pretty well.

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Re:Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain by troupe on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:13PM (#37531694)

Good point.

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