@CGHildebrandt Ah, but if you were one of the lucky ones to survive infanthood in the 1800s you could look forward to spending your childhood years frolicking and idling away the hours in the playscape like tunnels of a coal mine.

@CGHildebrandt progress

@CGHildebrandt the recent trend of romanticizing the 1800s as if life were so much easier/better then is baffling. I don’t get what they’re even attempting to accomplish.

@CGHildebrandt “Back then, we died and we LIKED it”

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There was a lot less Anthropogenic Global Warming pre-industrial age though.

yes, life before chemistry and hygene was short and ugly ...