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Look, I get the sentiment. But objectively, humans that lived in the past, even just a few decades ago, had a much worse standard of living than today. Example: the polio vaccine was invented in 1955. So not even 100 years ago, the likelihood you’d end up paralyzed or even worse in an iron lung for the rest of your life was a real threat. People had a crap ton of kids not because they liked kids but because infant mortality was so high. So saying that we are living in the most prosperous time in human history is objectively true.
That said, yeah. Eat the rich. 100%.
Being born rich at any point is groovy even if you do die of polio at 32.
Most people who die from polio do so before they're 5.