Lemuria@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 months agoWhat are mundane actions we get to do everyday with technology that would be a superpower to people from before say.. the 1600s?message-squaremessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareWhat are mundane actions we get to do everyday with technology that would be a superpower to people from before say.. the 1600s?Lemuria@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square18linkfedilink
minus-squareBananaPeal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoThis 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.
minus-squareHudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoIt’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.
minus-squarehuf [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agothis stupid meme needs to die, something like 30-40% of people lived past 60 in the 1600s…
minus-squareLemuria@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoi’m just gonna generalize this to “any year before 1600” and edit the title
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