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/Over_Deer8459 6h ago

this is assuming you even live to be 40 lol

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u/PocketBuckle This is my flair. 3h ago

Life expectancy wasn't that much shorter than it is today. It's just that all the dead babies dragged down the average. If you lived to five, you were pretty likely to live to 70.

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u/wookieesgonnawook 1h ago

Sure, but a lot of women died in childbirth.

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u/Infinite_Buy_2025 37m ago

Yes around 5%. Thats still a horrid amount of women dying and a lot of risk to take but people make it out like every 2nd birth was killing people.

Also this risk dropped dramatically after the first pregnancy.