Life in the old days was genuinely a lot harder. Imagine living with no air conditioning, no heating, no piped water, no toilets, no computers, no power tools.
Living at home was tough – you had to hunt and forage for dinner, you had to split wood and burn lumber for heat, you had to pump water from a well to drink.
When there was a family – everyone had to pull their share in order for everyone to survive. People were much tougher back then and it took a toll on their bodies.
The reality was that by 20-25 you were middle aged. Life expectancy didn’t hit 40 until the late 1800s: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Life_expectancy_by_world_region%2C_from_1770_to_2018.svg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Life_expectancy_by_world_region%2C_from_1770_to_2018.svg)
Today kids get to be kids, back then it was hard work from a young age.
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