Comment by AnonymousPlanet

> Everything's always been unstable, people sometimes just take a slightly rose-tinted view of the past.

No. For the most of history people could look decades into the past and be quite confident that things would be the same decades in the future. The only aspects that mostly changed were local leaders and maybe some fashions. A farmer was a farmer and a carpenter was a carpenter and their sons and grandsons likely too.

Ever changing times with regards to technology and professions is a rather modern thing.