Are people from the past much more resilient than people nowadays?

[Anonymous]

100 years ago, many kids grew up as orphans in orphanages. Disease was common so it was common for people to die young back then. Parents raised up to 8 kids under poverty. Bullying was a common, even normal thing. Therapy didn't exist. Often times, both parents worked full-time jobs while raising 5 kids. Somehow, they made it. Kids even worked to help their parent's pay bills. Nowadays, people call a child working a job as "child abuse" or a mother working a full time job to pay bills as a "bad mother". Just think about what your ancestors had to go through.. it makes your problems look like nothing.

[exitseven]

Yes, we had real adversities and nobody would help. We had to figure things out on our own and if we had to bend the rules, tht was just part of the game, There was nobody who was going to come and bail us out.

I was happy to provide my kids with everything that they needed to succeed in life but sometimes I wonder if I made it too easy for them.

[NathanDavis]

people from the past died around age 30...

most children didn't make it past five years old

nowadays we eat more crap than never before... and we're still around somehow

[Asker]

you are still around because you receive vaccines and get to see the doctor every year to make sure you are not sick. you ever heard of the annual checkup?

[Asker]

back then, doctor services did not exist for most of the population especially the poor. Most people never seen the doctor their entire lives cuz they don't have the money

[NathanDavis]

yeah... vaccines made people from nowadays, more resilient than those from the past, lol

[Asker]

haha i don't think so... if you were sent to the past with no vaccines, no doctor visits, living in apartment with 10 other people, starving due to lack of food... you'd be dead too.

[NathanDavis]

if the one virus for which we do not have antibodies is around... probably, yes

[Asker]

back then, there was no such thing as eating protein or count your macros or make sure you eat 3 meals a day or wash your hands everyday. Youd' be lucky if you got to eat a piece of bread once a day, there was barely any food, especially if you were poor. No clean water to wash hands. No doctor visits. Got a rash? let it keep itching and hope it goes away. Maybe it would never go away. Then let it get infected and you die from sepsis

[NathanDavis]

what do you think they did before bread even existed...

[Asker]

there was no such thing as nutrition back then. People just ate whatever was available. They didn't know they had to eat meat, veggies, carbs to get full nutrients. A lotta people were malnourished back then. Lotta people survived on only 1 slice of bread a day

[NathanDavis]

for how long do you think bread has existed?

[NathanDavis]

or humans... for that matter, let's start there, lol

[Asker]

@nathandavis

you can just google that

[NathanDavis]

yes, I was just wondering if you ever had... lol

[Asker]

i don't have the time for that. you have no idea how busy i am. im just on here to relieve stress

[NathanDavis]

do you like cats or sharks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmKfpKM8bw

[Anonymous]

They had to get by with less technology so they were more functional

[Dargil]

Yesterday, I watched a YouTube video of 4-6 YO Philppine boys and girls racing dirt motorcyles in full racing gear. Our kids stare at screens, Yes, and Its not just nowadays. its HERE. We are raising muffins.

[strateguy632]

not resilient they died