[imnotlost]

Ah, the 1850s when life was good!

The US Post is great and all, but I would gladly trade the US post for a large beaver-hunting territory!

Horses are too fast! Walking is better.

Or whatever... come on!

[fragmede]

so the tradeoff, for having to have both parents working for a very average family, is that they can surf the Internet and get Doordash? you come on. I'm not denying that we have a better quality of living today, but how much time do you have outside of weekends to just go fishing or whatever? all these labor saving devices were supposed to give us more leisure time but instead we're worrying harder than ever!

[ben_w]

> instead we're worrying harder than ever

I was going to say this typo was accurate, but now I realise I've never actually seen a detailed analysis of how much people worried in the past, just confident claims it was so.

[imnotlost]

I understand, times are hard. Always were.

When was this chill time when we could just take off fishing for a week or two?

Random breakdown of time :) * 1800s * 1900-WW1 * WW1-WW2 * WW2-1980 * 1980-Now

And yeah, single breadwinner households were a thing back in the day it was generally because women didn't have a choice at all.

I'm pretty sure you have more options and choice today as to how you want to live your life, but if you want a family you gotta feed the little bastards one way or another, that has always been a "worry".