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by cubefox 1089 days ago
They likely don't find it unbearable if it's normal. Stagnation was the largest part of human history. Only since the Renaissance has progress accelerated substantially. Before then, the life of the children was about the same as the life of the parents and grandparents. Life was governed by tradition. Everyone had their predictable role to play. Being unhappy about "stagnation" wasn't an option, as anything else would have been outlandish science fiction, which didn't exist.
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wait what?

it doesn't feel like it is really stagnation if armies are rampaging through your lands and you have new rulers/warlords/famine/pandemics all the time