Just picturing an alien archaeologist “so, as they stopped being crippled by polio or losing their lives building railroads, they complained about having to wash the dishes?”
Yeah, but as the quality of life has improved, we have also improved our knowledge and technology to the point where everyone can live a comfortable, generally healthy life, without want for any necessities. But that isn’t happening because of human greed and indifference. And everyone is completely justified complaining about that.
Excellent shower thought. Even the most powerful kings and queens of the past would be thrilled to live in today’s times even if religated to what we would consider poverty level living
I mean, by 1400 the world population was comparable to the modern US. It merely broke the billion people mark by the early 1800s, it took merely another century to double that, and it since did more than 4x straight to 8.2 billion people, so even if the proportion of whiners stayed the same, there’d be so many more of them. Now, to that, consider we now have access to the internet.
Op, are you familiar with the hedonic treadmill? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
I think it’s more that as qol improved so too did the ability of common people to record their frustrations
Any alien archaeologist worth their preferred home planet’s seasoning ingredient would treat the development of a motorized sanitation device to clean large amounts of food prep and eating tools as a major labor saving milestone of technological development.
Thus complaining about having to the dishes is probably considered a reliable indicator of saturation of these devices.
This is why complaining about having to do the dishes is actually a selfless act of historical preservation for future alien archaeologists.
I love all of this, thank you.
Though, there is now a part of me that wants to mass produce etched stone tablets bitching about the dishes just to give some future alien archeolgist an interesting PhD subject.
Nowadays we have first world problems, but I wonder if something comparable existed 500 years ago. Maybe city problems?
Oh no, they didn’t have salmon at the fish market, so I had to buy perch instead.
Ahaha, definitely had “royal court” and OG bourgeoisie problems.
“Oh no, my servant lost her leg to an infected toenail and now I hear her peg clomping everytime she walks near!”
That’s comparable to today’s millionaire problems.
Oh no, my Bugatti isn’t blue enough for this event, so I had to drive one of my Lamborghinis instead.
Jesus, I hope that didn’t happen to you!
Fortunately, there was a simple solution: Buy a new Bugatti on the way to the party.
what fucking quality of life is it if I have a phone that sucks ass, and no house to call my own?
EDIT : phones in general suck ass, I’m not saying my phone is worse than someone elses. That’s part of the problem that they’re all “pictures under glass” unwieldy, fiddly pieces of shit
Have you been recruited to go die in a trench? Or seriously worry about starving to death? Or watched a child die of measles, smallpox or whooping cough? Been a literal slave who could be whipped?
Hell, would you even trade places with the children who made your shirt?
