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Two have a point. One does not. (media.kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Life expectancy is still basically the same.

No? life expecancy has gone from ~28 years to ~75 years

it’s not like people didn’t live well into their 90s even Before Common Era.

Yes, but this has gone from being the exception to being relatively frequent

The maximum life span a human can achieve has not changed, but life expectancy absolutely has. (last 2 paragraphs)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it's still not obvious that it just means a higher percentage are making it to older ages. If you made it into your 30s your likelihood of living to old age was pretty good.

I think my argument does make light of how much the average person was dying really young though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If you made it into your 30s your likelihood of living to old age was pretty good.

It may have been 'pretty good', but its still markedly worse than what it is now.