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30 to 50% of them would have died before five years of age.

If someone asks you that, you should both flip a coin. If it lands tails, you died as an infant or young child, as literally half of all kids did before the introduction of vaccines.

Life was harder back then.

The dysentery always got me

Sorry to hear 😞

If I was transported back? Probably try to ply myself as some kind of low end entertainer (storyteller etc) Born in that era? Farmer

Jewish shopkeeper killed in a pogrom somewhere near Minsk. 😩

Oh me too: a daughter then a wife on a couple of subsistence Welsh hill farms, probably dying in childbirth like my g-grandmother (I can’t imagine myself a servant in a large house because I’d have been so bad at it I’d have been turfed out to survive the streets. Too unpleasant to contemplate)

Not convinced of that either. what’s your argument? (Fun)

I was really disappointed to get a past life regression and find out that I was a very bitter old man who was constantly disappointed in my children in Italy, dying in poverty and pain.

One historian was noting when people talk about "past lives", 99% of them would be farmers

Tell them to try anyhumanever.com

They were the first to die when the harvest failed.

I would have to be a Robin Hood like person. I don't do well with elitism, and people that try and control others through manipulation, coercion, and bullying. Also Passive aggression is not my thing.