i think in 100 years people will look back at 2022 and be even more astonished at how bad our quality of life was than we are looking back at people who lived 1000 years ago

Jul 27, 2022 · 4:38 PM UTC

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(as long as we don't give up on the enlightenment values that got us here)
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Highly doubt that will happen. Things really are not that bad right now. 1,000 years ago people were mass murdering each other with swords and dying of famine
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"can you believe people died of disease?" "can you believe people spend their time doing things they didn't enjoy?" "can you believe people didn't have basic human rights?"
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Also true for any other 100 year period in the future unless something goes terribly wrong. Right? 2022 is not special.
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I’m 14 and this is deep.
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More likely they will look back and remark how whiny people were in 2022 despite how good their lives were.
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along what major aspects?
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I agree with this. We’re living a shamefully low quality of life standard and that’s mostly because companies are for-profit, not for-health. Those who realize eating clean / physical activity is the key to a good life have it figured out
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what makes you think so?
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probably in a similar manner to the early Neolithic technological progress (agricultural revolution) was a lifestyle shift we were not well adapted to
american biologist
 @95thoughts
9 Apr 2022
really cool paper. combines prehistoric skeletal analysis with genomics and find Neolithic transition to an agricultural diet came at a cost, making people significantly shorter than their genes would predict pictured: what seed oils and phytic acid will to do a mfer
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