eclipse, great poem! you’re really talented!
chayav, in the good old days:
1)people had to use a horse and buggy to get around, or to relay a message.
2)people owned 2 sets of clothing- shabbos and weekday- if they were lucky, and had to scrub those same clothing by hand to get them clean.
3)people didn’t know enough to question
4)then, as now, there were people that were happy with what they had, and people that weren’t- hence the success of the haskalah movement.
5)children died from childhood diseases, women died in childbirth regularly, and the average life expectancy in 1900 was 47.
now you tell me, do you REALLY want to go back there?