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Zyxl on scored.co
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Can you be more specific about what was bad in the 1800s? I know children had to work in factories under terrible conditions, but this was a result of technology and before that children would just help their parents on the farm. Also there was slavery and if you didn't fit in with the local community they could make life difficult for you or one person could make a false accusation and then the whole town hates you. But I don't think these problems necessarily come back without modern technology and they can be solved without technology.
> If you truly want to try life in the 1800s, be expected to have 18-20 children, all born at home, and have half of them die before the age of five because of dysentery, typhoid, scarlet fever or measles.
18-20 children is incredibly exaggerated. The average was more like 7. And being born at home is still the best way today. Most deaths would be prevented by cleanliness, like not getting water downstream from the animals like that article says, using soap and not just dipping your hands in a bucket of water to be reused many times but keeping the bucket clean by using a clean jug to take a little out and using that with soap. But washing correctly is only likely to be important after working with animals or dirt.
The other things in that article aren't very bad and I would definitely take them over modern society.
https://www.iamcountryside.com/homesteading/simple-homesteading-life-in-the-1800s/
> If you truly want to try life in the 1800s, be expected to have 18-20 children, all born at home, and have half of them die before the age of five because of dysentery, typhoid, scarlet fever or measles.
The other things in that article aren't very bad and I would definitely take them over modern society.