[still_grokking]

Most of the "bad things" were independent of social class. This was just the way people lived back than.

> watching too many of your children die before their 4th birthday

> There was no light in the evenings because tallow or other wax was far too expensive so when it got dark there were limited things to do.

(Not even rich people could afford much light!)

> Floors […] were host to bugs.

> True medicine was not there

But just think about the work days and hours. Most people (even the poor ones) were not working the most time of the year. Only in summer it was possible to work the whole day. That's why industrialization needed to "teach" the "lazy people" to "actually work".