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Modern earth is candy land compared to the planet we had 500+ years ago m’dude (thelemmy.club)
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[–] Airfried@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

The middle ages were arguably better than a lot of years following it until recently. People generally lived in relative peace and prosperity over those 1000 years. Same can't be said about 30 year war or world wars.