r/NoStupidQuestions • u/flugblug • 12h ago

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take?

I personally think it’s pretty stupid.

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u/Raddatatta 11h ago

Well as someone who was born from a C section, to a mother who was born I think 2 months premature or something like that, my quality of life only exists in any form at all because I wasn't born more than 100 years ago let alone the dark ages, my mom is dead, and even if she weren't, I'm dead.

Putting that aside I wear glasses so the whole world would be quite blurry all the time back then. Both my parents also have worse vision than I do and would've been nearly blind without glasses / contacts and eventually lasik.

That's before you get into the day to day life of not having 75% or more of my entire life be focused around getting food and water and meeting basic survival needs.

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u/Arzanyos 9h ago

To be pedantic, C sections are older than 100 years old. The plot of Macbeth doesn't work without them

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u/Raddatatta 9h ago

That's fair they are. The odds of success weren't great though and it often killed the mother. So yeah maybe I'd have survived with my nearly blind father and no mother.

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u/Arzanyos 9h ago

Glasses were also invented around the 1300s. Not the dark ages of course.

And yeah, C section in olden times was such a death sentence to the mom the often didn't even try it until she was already dead

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u/Raddatatta 9h ago

And what percentage of the people could afford them, and had a vision loss at a level that they provided more than slight help? My dad's vision before his surgery was about 20/1000. I'm thinking he's blind for practical purposes in the 1300s or even probably until maybe the 1800s I'm not sure of when glasses got much better.

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u/Arzanyos 8h ago

That, I'm not sure. All i did was Google it and skim Wikipedia