Comment by const_cast

> For all of human history people have got along just fine, happily in fact, without “universal access to mental health care”

Can we please stop with these incredibly low-effort arguments that are just blatantly untrue with about 5 seconds of inspection? If I have to hear "well humans did just fine before!" one more time I'm going to lose my mind.

No, no they did not. We can't ask them because they're dead now. The ones we can ask are the ones who survived. We might call this a "survivorship bias".

There's practically infinite graphs showing the trends of survivability and quality of life throughout time. Less infants die now, less adults die now, we live longer, we live happier, we live with less illnesses. There's less polio, less measles, less tuberculosis, you fucking name it.

I mean, for god's sake before modern medicine infant mortality was close to 50%. Women would have 10 children, maybe 4 would make it to adult hood, and she'd die giving birth to the 10th. That's assuming she didn't get unlucky and die on the first one because her body wasn't perfectly set to give birth. Shoulder dystocia? Too fucking bad, you lost the lottery, go die now.