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