Imagine being born 10000 years ago where chances that you died before adulthood were significant and even a minor infected cut would likely mean your death, not to mention any more serious injury such as a broken bone 🥰

Don't get me wrong I hate modern wage slavery just as you do but I also appreciate not being dead yet just because I had a rough accident three years ago.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is a bit of an exaggeration. There's evidence that prehistoric societies mended broken bones and sometimes even skull fractures.

Average life expectancy stats are pretty skewed by infant mortality rates.

As one example, Otzi the "ice man" had several broken bones early in his life and survived a pretty long time after that.

https://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 13 hours ago

Oh no, an exaggeration about one thing when there's so many other things to kill you

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If you made it to five you'd be fine

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not really, there's further age tiers.

Childhood, most dangerous by far. Adolescents are safer but still die at high rates. Young adults die often to injuries and infections but generally make it to adulthood, and adults generally make it to seniority but none of it is near-guaranteed like in a modern society.

It's always just probable.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 13 hours ago

Sure, no guarantees. I have a great grandfather who died in his 30s from an infection from a shaving cut.

The ancient Greeks a couple of generations after agriculture arrived called the tribal past the golden age when gods walked among men. Early English explorers in America called the natives more splendid than an English gentleman in all his finery.