Ever think about how lucky you are to live in 2020? Imagine living 500 years ago, or more.

Thanks, Greg.

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If we were living then now we'd be over 2,000 years old!

Yeah that would suck. Though as long as I didn't have any major health problems, I think I would be happy living in any society with enough division of labor that I could find a meaningful job. I would not enjoy a hunter-gatherer or agrarian society.

Greg wrote:

Imagine living in the Roman Empire.

Your name would be Gregorius.

Books and plenty of articles have been written about medicine in the Roman Empire. Life expectancy for those who survived early childhood wasn't too bad, especially for the upper classes. There were no Romans 500 years ago. 1520 was a terrible time to be an Aztec, but a great time to be an Englishman, like my antecedents. We were kicking France's butt, I could go out to the bar to get a drink, unlike in 2020, pretty good year.

Roman Empire wrote:

Greg wrote:

Imagine living in the Roman Empire.

Your name would be Gregorius.

And he would have been a playwright rather than a TV screenwriter

Population was much lower and it took time for diseases to spread. Herd immunity would have been established in a month

You are dumb, hindsight is 2020 but ignorance is bliss.

Sitting in bed in my boxers watching Netflix on a random Wednesday is a better life than Caesar EVER had.

Be grateful folks

This is probably the peak of humanity right now. Covid is initiating the inevitable decline. Too high population, depletion of natural resources, pollution, climate change. Imagine how ugly the situation could get for humans before facing possible extinction.

Kvothe wrote:

There were no Romans 500 years ago.

Yeah, there were.

And there still are today.

Harambe wrote:

Sitting in bed in my boxers watching Netflix on a random Wednesday is a better life than Caesar EVER had.

Be grateful folks

Um, Cleopatra was blowing him.

What if I had lived in the early 1970s? I could be a mediocre marathoner like Frank Shorter and later be considered by some to be the greatest American runner of all time. I’d be laughing all the way to the bank, sister!

Greg, tigers are hot right now. I'm willing to collaborate you if you make some edits to your screenplay to include tigers. I want at least 5 scenes with tigers and for your protagonist to wear a m4ga cap.

No bad mayor of Edmonton back then.

You also weren't getting screwed by US producers back then.

No COVID-19 back then.

520 BC

The collapse of the Western Roman Empire late in the previous century left Europe fractured into many small Germanic kingdoms competing fiercely for land and wealth. From the upheaval the Franks rose to prominence and carved out a sizeable domain covering much of modern France and Germany. Meanwhile, the surviving Eastern Roman Empire began to expand under Emperor Justinian, who recaptured North Africa from the Vandals and attempted fully to recover Italy as well, in the hope of reinstating Roman control over the lands once ruled by the Western Roman Empire.

Life was good then. Now we have to deal with thread empires like Greg.

At this very moment 500 years ago, Magellan and his crew were on their voyage of circumnavigation. 5 ships and 300 men left Spain in September, 1519. 1 ship and 19 men returned to Spain in September, 1522. Magellan was killed in the Philippines.

The story was told in compelling fashion by William Manchester in "A World Lit Only By Fire".

You don't even need to go back that far. Deaths from infectious in 1900 were the leading cause of death.

The smell from all the horse crap in cities would cause you to gag if you just were to transport there.

Few homes had electricity.

According to this article only 7% of Americans brushed their teeth.

https://www.209nycdental.com/history-lesson-america-started-brush-teeth/