• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    Go back to being an illiterate, muck raking peasant or die young in a workhouse then, I guess. Fucking hell.

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      People in all the past golden ages did just fine without having the teaching system we have currently.

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            And you somehow genuinely feel that the average person’s prosperity was, relatively, better in that period?

            Working 7 days a week, morning to night, producing that prosperity and trade for the educated class in exchange for a pittance. Whilst eating your table scraps in the dark, you can hope you don’t die of a disease you have no idea how to prevent contracting.

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                    It feels like it might impact your view a bit if you did.

                    As good as it is to be marginally taller for 30-40 years, or be a super tall person who died an infant. Not that the article you linked has any description of heights related to whichever “golden age” you might refer to, but whatever.