Timeline for Was the average person no better off in 1800 than in 100,000 BC?
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 17:08 | answer | added | Adam Bailey | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | Rodrigo | Much higher population density tends to decrease individual well-being. But the author is evidently Eurocentric, since the lack of hygiene imposed by Catholic church (you shouldn't see, touch or understand your own body) probably made the Europeans poorer than cavemen as well. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 4:37 | comment | added | marshal craft | Also larger populations of seventeenth century nay have made survival more challenging than earlier times. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 4:36 | comment | added | marshal craft | I feel it may harbor some resentment, but maybe understandably. Is a slave better off than a caveman? If many lived essentially as slaves then could be some truth to it. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 3:48 | history | asked | user18 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |