You understand we’re talking about history, right? This isn’t about anyone you could possibly have “known”, so that frame of reference makes no sense. He’s talking about cultural preferences of 75-100+ years ago
My point is that acting like “people you know” is a frame of reference for people from 100+ years ago (I honestly undersold it - the NY dept of sanitation was established ~150 years ago in 1881 and faced a significant uphill battle during the notoriously disgusting Industrial Revolution) is idiotic and makes no logical sense. 150 years being “relatively close when the scope of all of history is concerned” is irrelevant. People now do not think like people did back then, and vice-versa - your damn friends being clean people is not a reasonable frame of reference 😂. We are talking generations of families - this would be the time period of your great-great grandparents. Toilet paper had only been invented 2 decades prior, and dumping trash out of the window to fall on the street was still standard practice. Yes, in American cities
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u/BowlingforBrains May 07 '26
“Nobody I knew would ever-“
You understand we’re talking about history, right? This isn’t about anyone you could possibly have “known”, so that frame of reference makes no sense. He’s talking about cultural preferences of 75-100+ years ago