The improvement in living standards (including health) is due to the use of fossil fuels.
The ability to harness fossil fuels was due to a bunch of rich well-off people mentally masturbating in Britain for 300 years.
Britain had so many rich well-off people because the Black Death killed 50% of all Europeans, freeing up resources and reducing the power of the king and elites.
The increase in living standards, as well as everything Europeans invented in the last 500 years, is directly due to Bubonically-enforced socialism. Other regions lagged behind because they were mostly unaffected by Plague, and thus remained in hypercompetitive societies since nobody died.
The improvement in living standards (including health) is due to the use of fossil fuels.
The ability to harness fossil fuels was due to a bunch of rich well-off people mentally masturbating in Britain for 300 years.
Britain had so many rich well-off people because the Black Death killed 50% of all Europeans, freeing up resources and reducing the power of the king and elites.
The increase in living standards, as well as everything Europeans invented in the last 500 years, is directly due to Bubonically-enforced socialism. Other regions lagged behind because they were mostly unaffected by Plague, and thus remained in hypercompetitive societies since nobody died.