Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "How History Works" channel.

  1. Very true - they just didn't have our mentality to things. And that's a hard thing to quantify.
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  2. I wish I could upvote this a dozen times - more material wealth only compensates so much for having none of the family, faith, community and traditions that used to keep everyone sane back when people lived objectively harder lives. We really shouldn't be more miserable than people who could die at any moment from drinking water or catching a cold: and yet here we are with addiction, depression and suicide as pandemics.
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  3. "Why did we not cut hours in half when women joined the work force?" Because when you double the workforce, you halve the value of labour, and so halve your bargaining power. It's the same process with mass-immigration which we are lied to is good for us, but is actually only good for the already wealthy.
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  4. People in the modern west are just. . . . . .miserable. Everyone can feel it, and yet we're told to pretend everything in our culture is more enlightened than ever, when we're actually driving hard against everything we know makes humans happy and content - family, community, faith, shared culture etc.
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  5. For all the undoubted hardships of the past (it was far harder than we realize) - people usually had around them families, communities, churches, traditions and cultures that made their lives meaningful. We've thrown away almost of those things in the pursuit of equality, efficiency, modernity, materialism, tolerance etc etc: and the result is that we're living materially better lives, and yet are far more depressed and miserable than people who were a lot poorer than we are.
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  6. They were also more in tune with natural rhythms - they slept when it was dark, they rose when it was light, they ate when they were hungry, they worked around people they knew and trusted, they didn't have to do long commutes to their place of work or write reams of BS about how they were "so excited to utilize synergies to deliver targeted revolutionary disruption in the agricultural sector".
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  7. Advertising is kinda like torture - just because you know it's happening to you, doesn't mean it's not working.
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  8. "Overall, I feel like everyone was "happier" in the 90's and early 2000's" This is objectively true when you look at rates of mental illness, suicide, addiction etc. Plus there just wasn't the same all pervasive low-level sense of struggle and misery surrounding everything back then.
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