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Mmmmm, it rather reminds me of the pilot for the SHORT tv series "The Incredible Journey" where Enid Jordan (I think, only saw it once, played by Lynn Borden) is telling the time trapped buccaneer about Sir Francis Drake's win over the Spanish Armada and then........
"For a commoner, you know too much but for royalty, you know too little........so which one are you?"--the buccaneer
Reading way too far into it, it's probably not a ridiculous premise that gays were better off well before 1492. I suppose Roman bath houses may have come to mind when writing the post. Apparently, homosexuality was right common back then.
As far as everyone as a whole, it is a ridiculous question. In a little over 500 years life expectancy has increased, income, social mobility, education, health care, diet (debatable), availability of goods, trade, and a whole lot more have also increased. Worldwide. In some places these things are far lower but they are likely better than they were in 1492.
Everyone is better off. They now have access to western science...western medicine. They have access to technologies and recreation undreamed of in the past. Even the poor eat good foods that kinds could not have imagined.
Slavery, which still persisted in Africa until recently, is eliminated in western countries.
Social safety net...free education...opportunity unimaginable in traditional societies.
You, like Elizabeth Warren, can pretend that you would rather be living in a teepee. But it is foolishness.
Everyone is worse off now except for slaves and the like of the time.
'Is the group you most closely associate with better off now than before Columbus discovered the Americas'? I got to thinking that if your group is better off now you probably vote Republican, if the answer is no you probably vote Democrat. In general White men are much better off, unless then primary identify as gay / bi trans. Native Americans and Blacks are far worse off.
Native Americans and Blacks are far worse off in the 21st century as free citizens of the world's only superpower than they were as Neolithic tribesmen? I'm tempted to argue otherwise, but this claim is so ridiculous it makes any attempt to refute it seem ridiculous by association.
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