The industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race -
It must've been anoying to live pre 1800's.1. No antibiotics.
2. No refrigeration.
3. No running water in homes, go to the well.
4. No sanitation, no flush toilets.
5. No reasonably safe surgery. (see #1)
6. No electric light.
7. Best/fastest travel is by horse.
8. Slavery, serfdom, indentured servitude
9. Dentistry = extraction by pliers. No painkillers. Infection likely. (see #1)
10. No TV or internet. Read a book. If you're rich, that is. Chances are you're illiterate though, no education.
That's just a small list of why. Out of all of human history, we are exceedingly fortunate that our lives are in the here and now, and not the pre-1900 past.
No refrigeration so food had to be constantly bought fresh and goes rotten faster. Or preserve meat with lots of salt.
No all in one super markets where you can get almost everything you need in 1 location. You had to go to many individual specialty stores which takes up more time.
No cars to pack all of your food so many things had to be carried by hand which limits what you carry so multiple store and home trips or put on a slow carriage moving horse.
No stoves so fire had to be made by burning wood. Cooking took all day.
Clothing had to be nit by hand.
No toilets or sewage system or charmin ultra extra strenght toilet paper. Light had to be from candles.
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