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Slum in New York City, USA, 1888
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Is it bad that I don’t think that looks too bad?
You can't smell a photo.
Pictures don't tell you the full story. You're probably thinking there's heating, food, etc which are probably in short supply.
Also, how good are you at fighting?
Meh, my goal isn’t to win, just to make sure the other guy knows he has been in one.
Which is why I frequently practice bleeding on people while screaming "I'M SORRY, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!!!"
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Gods, is your blood even clean?
In the 1880s Shantytowns were pretty common, and compared to those, these people live in a much better house. Hell, most of the frontier towns would look worse than this.
Yeah, they probably don't have heating other than woodfires, water or plumbing, but that's the same for a huge portion of the population anywhere in the 1880s. Of course, the big city comes with big city problems like disease, water, food, fuel that frontier towns didn't have to deal with (as much)
Well… yes and no. You’ve seen the homeless encampments in, like, basically every single decent sized US city, right? I can’t imagine the conditions there would be better than the slums shown here.
You're probably comparing this to the way people still live in many parts of the world or have lived everywhere for most of human history, which is bad and you should feel bad