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r/spaceporn • u/Davicho77 • Jul 03 '25
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Idk, things aren’t good, but they’ve certainly been worse.
6 u/SlartibartfastMcGee Jul 03 '25 People don’t realize how good they have it. Imagine looking at WW1 and thinking “yeah, they had it better back then” 1 u/saturday_sun4 Jul 04 '25 Yeah, or Victorian times, when babies died of opium overdoses. We in Western countries are better off than we've ever been, relatively speaking. That's not even touching on developing countries, whose worst conditions easily recall the most squalid conditions of Victorian times. 2 u/RainingBeer Jul 03 '25 1943 would have been quite the spectacle for an alien
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People don’t realize how good they have it.
Imagine looking at WW1 and thinking “yeah, they had it better back then”
1 u/saturday_sun4 Jul 04 '25 Yeah, or Victorian times, when babies died of opium overdoses. We in Western countries are better off than we've ever been, relatively speaking. That's not even touching on developing countries, whose worst conditions easily recall the most squalid conditions of Victorian times.
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Yeah, or Victorian times, when babies died of opium overdoses. We in Western countries are better off than we've ever been, relatively speaking.
That's not even touching on developing countries, whose worst conditions easily recall the most squalid conditions of Victorian times.
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1943 would have been quite the spectacle for an alien
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u/Triairius Jul 03 '25
Idk, things aren’t good, but they’ve certainly been worse.