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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There was a video on youtube about field surgery during the Napoleonic era (basically amputations without anesthetic) and I recall a funny comment someone said about forwarding the video to his friend who keeps saying he was born in the wrong era; the comment ended up annoying someone into posting about how 'born in the wrong era' refers to missing out on the cultural zeitgeist or whatever other nonsense.

Problem is, being born in the so called right era comes with all the baggage of inferior medicine and living standards; it's a package deal

[–] soviettaters@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. Except for a few niche diseases and conditions, 40 years ago is probably a better time than now. Every era goes through peaks and dips in happiness.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is also extremely relevant as to whether things were better or not. I'd argue most South American countries weren't exactly at their peak during the 80s