Gee you got it all wrong. The old times were not simpler. WE like to feed on that idea but it isn't true. Back in the 1800's the vast bulk of Americans farmed. Over 50%. Those people worked sun up to sun down 7 days a week just to survive. Hunting and fishing was relaxing. It was an important part of putting food on the table. Heck they been doing studies into this stuff. Even during the industrial revolution people worked 12 hour or more days to feed the family. Never in the history of man has a certain segment of the worlds population had so much leisure time. That being most of Europe, Canada and the US. Ask a pre 1930 factory worker where conditions were horrid and dangerous, work hours as much as 18 hours a day with no overtime pay. Or the guy who got up, milked the cow, fed livestock, grabbed a rifle, went and shot a deer. Dressed it and took it home where he skinned it out, butchered and started smoking meat to preserve it (having cut and stacked firewood earlier) stretched the hide so the wife could scrape it and start tanning. Then did evening chores. When they were not farming they were cutting wood with a buck saw and an ax. Splitting by hand. All part of survival.
What is going on today is instant communications. 100 years ago when a kid got dads gun and accidental shot his baby brother it was a local tragedy. Now because of the internet and cell phones it's nation wide news in the matter of minutes. Local car accident were a drunk killed a family 50 years ago was local news. The same stuff that happens now happened then.
Heck few years ago a farm kid had both his arms ripped off by a grain auger. It was nationwide news. They actually had politicians in DC talking about how to stop kids from getting hurt in farm accidents. Had that happened in 1970 it would have been local news, really a community tragedy. Thing is we just hear about it more.
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