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What was the best time in human history?

I would say the early and mid 90s. The iron curtain is gone, economy is going up (without the gaping inequality we have now), and the world was having great hopes on pulling Russian and China into the international community.

Probably around 450BC, when the Eleusinian Mysteries began initiations in Athens.

Athens still had widespread slavery though, so I guess you had to be born in the "right" family, which would have been a minority.

Don't overlook that it's pretty recent that our beds are comfortable and our teeth don't hurt. Men not having extra children and wives to compensate for watching them die is pretty neat as well.

Pick your time post ww2 otherwise forget it. Even the roaring 20s were total and utter garbage compared to when penicillan existed.

In the west, Boomers did pretty well. When they were at their horny age there was this great new pill and STDs were all treatable. We really should rename the baby-boomers the boomer-bunnies. ;-) Probably had it the easiest economically, no world wars.

We sleep on the beds of emperors, kings and queens and banquets from the 4 corners of the earth is our norm.

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