Having reliable and cheap lighting at all hours of the day.
Light was very expensive for a lot of human history.
What wouldn’t be?
Something as simple as flipping on a device with a light switch would seen like witchcraft.
Want to know what time it is in the dark of the morning? reliable time keeping might be possible in a house, but certainly not in a bedroom, and certainly not millisecond-accurate or observable in the dark.
I think the only thing they wouldn’t be impressed with is alcohol consumption, but even then we have a variety, production scale and safety level they couldn’t fathom.
And the capitalist overlords will readily trot out these points and claim we live like nobility from the 1600s while sapping us of our every free moment and waking thought. Forgive my turning this political
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No that’s reasonable; this shit is often ‘ot has never been better!’ Slop, to ignore the fact we’re choking on the rotting corpse of our biosphere as the climate turns into an oven and the oppressive anti human politics that enable that shit.
Hot water from a tap at home.
Travel 2 cities away and back in the same day.Being able to use my magical talking rock to talk to people on the other side of the planet.
I have a flashlight in my pocket.
Using toilets and showers. Sanitation and hygiene are among the biggest factors in the increase of life expectancy we get to enjoy. Yet we take those things completely for granted.
I promise you one of the first things any time traveller from the past would notice, would be how much nicer everything smells. Not that they did not care about smelling nice, or were content being filthy all the time, we simply take for granted how incredibly easy hygiene has become.
10 packs of underwear for $8.99.
Everything, almost. Cars, phones, computers, spices, water on demand, electricity, the quantity and quality of almost everything, etc.
If the average person from, say, mid 1600’s were teleported to now, they would be so unimaginably confused, and hostile towards everything, and that makes sense, since so much has changed.
The internet would be something beyond comprehension for them, yet it’s something most of us use multiple times a day.
Have a great day, be kind, and I hope this answers the question! :D
Food from thousands of miles away in abundant quantities.
Have a drink with ice. Hands down that and air conditioning would be my top two missed conveniences if I went back in time.
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Live past 35.
This is a poor interpretation of average life expectancy numbers. Plenty of people lived into their 60s+, but due to high infant mortality, the average gets pulled way down.
It’s a little bit of both. It was not rare to see people in their 60s but it was also not an age most people expected to reach.
this stupid meme needs to die, something like 30-40% of people lived past 60 in the 1600s…
i’m just gonna generalize this to “any year before 1600” and edit the title
