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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Okay, using "Soaring rates of anxiety and depression" to illustrate that people in the middle ages were better off is just silly. I'm guessing there aren't a lot of stats to back up that anxiety and depression weren't an issure 500 years ago, but I'm willing to bet living hand to mouth at the whim of your local lord probalby wasn't good for general morale.
As for your assertation that we aren't as autonomus as a Greek citizen living 2300 years ago, well it's that "Citizen" word that totally ruins your argument. Sure I suppose it's debatable that they had more autonomy than we do now, but what you're not mentioning is that that group of citizens made up a small minority of the general population. For everone else, including all women, personal freedoms were clearly nowhere near what they are now, and that's to say nothing of the rather large population of slaves.
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That last part is rather debatable. I'll raise two points. One is that non-citizens were generally not as bad off as we think they were and two is that what makes this any different than the massive increasing global inequality between rich and poor now.
Don't forget that our modern way of life is basically built on the backs of third world slavery.