[samatman]

Unless you're relating the end of slavery, women's suffrage etc to the founding of the IRS, this is a fallacious argument. It's perfectly reasonable to imply or outright state that some things worked better in the past.

I consider 19th century architecture objectively superior to that of the 20th century. You may disagree, but cholera is not relevant to that discussion.

[ryanisinallofus]

Most 19th century architecture is completely unfeasible to build today. If only we had more of those non-union wage slaves to build are elaborate monuments like the good old days!

Dubai has that now I guess.