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by eru 313 days ago
> Golden ages are fictional constructs, applied retroactively as part of an agenda. There is no such thing as living in a current golden age without knowing the future.

That's a weird self contradiction. I just contemporarily applied the Golden Age moniker, so your assertion is just plain wrong.

People have never been as rich as today, even poor people. Wars are a bit bursty, but if you smooth it out a bit, but the probability for an average human to become a casualty in a war has been going down over the centuries, and is still going down over the last decades.