• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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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

      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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      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.