which gave us access to medicine, supermarkets, lightbulbs, and all sorts of other good things. Source: Our World in Data, Roser 2016, based on data from the World Bank and from Maddison Project 2014. And you’d probably die before the age of 60.īut a few hundred years ago, things began to change.You’d sleep when the sun went down - light was expensive.Your only defenses against illness would be herbs, bed rest, or surgery performed with primitive tools and zero anesthesia.Despite this effort, you’d eat the same food almost every day, and that food would barely be edible by modern standards.
You’d spend your time hunting, gathering, or farming, using almost all your energy just to stay alive.With few exceptions, you would have suffered what we today consider “extreme poverty”: For most of history, it didn’t matter what century you lived in.
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