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>>9362888

It has had disastrous consequences - that's not the same as saying it was a universal disaster.

Can you say with a straight face that you'd honestly prefer to live as a 17th century peasant, or even townsman, than as a modern, first world citizen?

Because if you can, I have an easy solution for you - work for a year or two, save up some money, buy a plot of land, build a cabin, grow your own crops, tend a herd of animals from which you can harvest and voila - you're now a 17th century farmer (except with the option of copping out and returning to society whenever the going gets tough, instead of dying of starvation or cold or thirst or an easily curable disease).

You know why you won't do that? Because it would fucking suck, that's why. All this "boo fucking hoo life was so much better before everything I like was invented" crap is just an excuse to not do anything interesting with your life. You convince yourself life outside your bedroom sucks so you don't have to go to the effort of leaving.

The fact that you're sitting on an online imageboard whining about the effects of industrialization is so far beyond ironic it's absurd.