Let's be honest, did society really have to progress past this point? It looks like a paradice.
>>18413848this plus trains and we can call it a day
>>18413848ngl I kind of like having working electricity and indoor plumbing
>>18413848Add in computers and fried chicken and I'm with you
>dies of "fever"
>>18413848incels be like>I will base my worldview on imaginary pictures
>>18413848that pic is just some historian's fantasy. no proof.
>>18413848You don't get to live in that. Your life looks like rural South Sudan. The guy who lives in that takes an irksome proportion of what you make.
>>18413848Yes, I'm sure it was nice to be the 1% in ancient Babylon. Same as any time.
>>18413856As much as I like ancient history and rail, I'd want at least a modern sewage system as well
i cant imagine life before indoor plumbingimagine everything everywhere just smells like literal shit 24/7 because there is shit everywhere
>>18414556>>18414794>>18413876why does no one on /his/ know history "Yes, the Babylonians and broader Mesopotamian civilization (starting around 4000 BCE) developed early sewage and drainage systems. They used fired clay pipes, bitumen sealant, and brick-lined cesspits to transport waste away from households, representing some of the earliest known urban sanitation infrastructure."copy pasting from google because i had to double check
like allot of history is way more sanitary then you think its just europeans around the 17th-19th century where gross as fuck
>>18415009>working electricity and indoor plumbing
>>18413897>>18414053>>18415020Electricity was invented by Archimedes
>>18415020was working electricity being addressed or indoor plumbing anonbecause they did have indoor plumbing
>>18415028I'm not talking about Flintstone plumbing. Im talking about personal sinks and showers and toilets for everyone. Not some communal bathhouse with tuberculosis blood floating around, nor some series of smelly holes in the floor for me to deficate in, nor some back room with servants pouring water over their masters heads. Thats not a shower, that's just a slave with a bucket.
>>18415042>tuberculosis blood floating aroundyou mean bad spirits but they had indoor plumbing showers and all that with aqueducts the bath houses where also dope as fuck
sorry over looked the for everyone but again ancient bath houses where 10/10
>>18415064I kinda don't like having to shit with other men in close proximities too, along with >>18413876
>>18415067just buy a slave you can shit in there hands and have them go throw it out
>>18415064Meanwhile, you got Horus over here squirting his salad dressing all over the tile.
>>18413848Your quality of life is vastly higher than literally 100% of people back then.
>>18415093people don't realize how good we have it, even kings didn't get the luxury of having night-time lighting that wasn't complete shit because of the flickering of flames, or water basins that can refill themselves mechanically instead of ones that needed lots of servants to dump and refill mostly manually.Just the cost-cutting that modern amenities would bring would probably drive them nuts.
>>18415064How long did it take for those "showers" to get heated? An hour? Right now I can have steamy hot water in under a minute.
>>18415295you will never experience a psychedelic temple orgies you will never consume organic food with 8x the nutrients and have honest work to keep you jackedaka just moving around lifting shit and moving shit around you will never have multiple wifes children and slaves you will never enjoy the huge festivals and spectacles to the gods you will never know what its like to be an actual man child not the soi boi kind but the going out in the woods with your friends to build forts and play games kind
>>18415306>you will never experience a psychedelic temple orgiesYou can take drugs and have an orgy now>you will never consume organic food with 8x the nutrientsMost food people eat isn't slop like you Americans>have honest work to keep you jackedaka just moving around lifting shit and moving shit aroundMany people do this now. With today the plus is you can just go to the gym which is even more enjoyable or even just workout outside>you will never have multiple wifes childrenMormons still practice polygamy and you can have as many kids as you and your wife wants now.>slavesStart your own business to get some wage slaves under you>you will never enjoy the huge festivals and spectacles to the godsMore festivals happen now than ever throughout history>going out in the woods with your friends to build forts and play games kindYou can still do this now with friends. Again everything you said can happen today except it is better.
>>18415093>>18415097Enough with the retarded meme that your average joe nowadays lives better than ancient nobility. Just the fact that they didn't have to work for a living makes up for whatever modern amenities they lacked, and you have to add up the fact that they could eat whatever delicacy they pleased and buy any cute slave that caught their eye
>>18415487>they could eat whatever delicacy they pleasedOh so at a whim a Roman Senator could order Mexican or Chinese food?>and buy any cute slave that caught their eyeGo visit a brothel or you can just ask any girl out on a date>no workDebatable
>>18415306anon...if you're doing "honest work that keeps you jacked" in a pre-modern society, I hate to be the one to tell you this but you ain't the one that's gonna have multiple wives
>>18415042Based modernity enjoyer. There are actually mentally ill chuds here who think living like a fucking pajeet is preferable to air conditioning and electric stoves. But modernity is le baaaad because there's some trannies sucking dick on the corner of Figueroa and 3rd.
>>18415487>the fact that they didn't have to work for a livingStopped reading.
>>18415491Can you nowadays order food you don't know the existence of? The same applies to ancient wealthy men>Go visit a brothel or you can just ask any girl out on a dateYou're average joe can't afford the best ass in town, besides owning them is better than renting them>debatableIf they worked, they did so to fulfill some personal ambition, not to earn a living like your average wageslave.
>>18415509Most people in the past were retarded farmers. If they were in a trade, it's because they were raised in it or inherited it from their fathers/family. Hardly anyone had a day in what they wanted to do for a living. Except for some spoiled failson of the nobility who never had to worry about becoming destitute.tldr; you're an out of touch faggot who thinks life was paradise before you got a job at Amazon
>>18415097>even kings didn't get the luxury of having night-time lighting that wasn't complete shit because of the flickering of flameslmao, "my kingdom for a LED"
>>18415520You fucking retarded piece of shit, I'm not comparing the lives of ancient average people to modern average people, but lives of ancient nobility with the lives of average wageslaves, since there seem to some retards so delusional as to believe that they live better than dukes just because they have electricity.
>>18415509>Best ass in town.>belongs to a slaveLol. Lmao even.
>>18415542Medical science today is enough to refute how better an average Joe has it compared to any nobility in contemporary times
>>18413848>Anon once again thinks he'd be part of the 0.1 % nobility instead of the 90 % slave class
>>18415836>not even a female slave
