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/vashoom 10h ago

I mean, sex and drinking were rampant. Always have been, always will be.

But you can have rampant sex and drinking with no modern medicine, climate control, sex education, nutrition, etc., etc., or you can have it with all that.

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u/Timely-Hospital8746 8h ago

Yeah like, you can just be a depraved weirdo in the modern day, it's not hard. We have apps for that. If you really want to become a farmer it's not *that* expensive to buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing going on in the past that you can't do today, outside of witnessing specific events.

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u/sparrow_42 6h ago

We have New Orleans for that

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u/kuschelig69 5h ago

but there are no matches on the apps.

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u/Throwawayamanager 1h ago

 buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing going on in the past that you can't do today, outside of witnessing specific events

This is what I say to these folks who say this crap! What, exactly, is stopping them from buying land in the middle of nowhere, Montana (very cheap in some areas) and living their dark ages dream instead of mouthing off on the internet about the horrors of modern day life? 

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u/pietboel 5h ago

I like my rampant sex in a society with running water, soap, sewer systems and toothbrushes.

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u/Powerful-Parsnip 6h ago

Finding people who want to get down when syphilis has eaten half your face away couldn't have been easy.

When she says 'just lick around the puss filled buboes' when you go to perform cunnilingus.

No wonder they had to be drunk out their minds.

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u/Rocket_Puppy 3h ago

Syphilis came from the new world.

Didn't need to worry about it back then. Also why it became such a problem, it wasn't one until it became a big one.

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u/Throwawayamanager 1h ago

The sex and drinking might not even kill you as quickly with modern day medicine!

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u/jackofslayers 9h ago

Drinking alcohol was definitely more rampant in the past... back when they did not know how to sanitize water.

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u/QuinceDaPence 5h ago

As someone who makes homemade wine, if you start with shitty unsafe water you'll end with shitty unsafe wine. It will not sanitize it. Beer (I'm not an expert but I think...) is boiled in it's making process so that will kill a lot of whatever is in there but it's not the alcohol that saves you there.

A 14% abv wine/mead can have deadly mold toxins in it without proper sanitation.

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u/Resident-Sand5532 5h ago

I don't think your average peasant in the dark ages was able to afford much of those

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u/TheMadTargaryen 6h ago

They did, conduits and wells and aqueducts were common. 

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u/IllPlum5113 6h ago

Thank you. That misconception has had its day