Substantive.

Try this, I'm genuinely curious: if you were going to be born as a random human somewhere on earth, what year would you prefer that to happen?

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cleversomething 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If I can choose the US specifically, then sometime in the 1950s. I think Baby Boomers in the US will go down as the single luckiest generation on earth in terms of socioeconomic opportunity.

	▲	senordevnyc 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I don't disagree, but if we're talking about how our species (which I took "civilization" to mean) as a whole has fared, I think you shouldn't get to pick the where, just the when. If we care about all humans everywhere, and whether fewer of them are starving or dying of preventable diseases or whatever, then I think you have to consider being born as just a random human, not just a random American.

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gazebo2 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

oh god are we really doing this? just ignore the accelerated decline of virtually the entire world because we have medicine and Netflix?

	▲	senordevnyc 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So what's your answer?

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MiguelX413 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

1700s Okinawa

	▲	senordevnyc 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You don't get to choose where