Average lifespan in 1900 - 31 years Average lifespan in 1950 - 46 years Average lifespan in 2020 - 73 years
Damn you capitalism!! shakes fist
Sorry kid, but your favourite robber baron superstars didn’t have much to do with improving commoners’ living conditions at any point in history.
Capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than any other system on history.
Unproven assertion.
Capitalism happened to be the dominant ideology (due to violent suppression of alternatives) during a period when many people were brought out of poverty.
Some other system or collection of systems might have worked worse, or better, or exactly the same.
Might have, but that doesnt contradict the comment. The just stated a fact that doesnt make any assumptions onhow well other systems could work.
The crazy thing is how much infant mortality changed from pre- to post-WWII. It dropped about 90% in that time.
Pre and post pressure from the USSR.
Antibiotics and vaccines. Sometimes a spade is just a spade
It’s generally a statistical trap to say that life expectency was in around 40s. From what I’ve heard, this number comes from the fact that very few children got to live long enough to become adults. But for those who survived past childhood - it wasn’t uncommon to see people in their 70s.
And that applies all the way to ancient times. Remember Ötzi? He lived over 5000 years ago and died in his late 40s.
95.7 % of all statistics are misleading.
