• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    If that’s true, which I question very much as the pressures of modern society are significantly more encompassing than in the past, that only means we’ve been doing it wrong the whole time.

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      3 months ago

      they aren’t. people just say that to feel good.

      living life as a european peasant was less burden some, in that you died by 30-35, and only 1/2 children survived past 5 years old.

      or maybe you’d rather be working 10 hours a day in a factory from the age of 10, losing your limbs in an accident, and being a begger the rest of your life? that was life for many pre ww1