There was a video on youtube about field surgery during the Napoleonic era (basically amputations without anesthetic) and I recall a funny comment someone said about forwarding the video to his friend who keeps saying he was born in the wrong era; the comment ended up annoying someone into posting about how 'born in the wrong era' refers to missing out on the cultural zeitgeist or whatever other nonsense.
Problem is, being born in the so called right era comes with all the baggage of inferior medicine and living standards; it's a package deal
Depending on the context they might be right. Like, the internet of the mid and late 2010's was pretty much better than today and we'll never go back to that peak.
specific things in past eras have definitely been better, though oftentimes only in specific places.
a big one that's relevant nowadays is how up until after ww2 we just straight up built better cities. the USA used to have like the worlds most impressive public transport network and cities were universally so lively that modern NYC would look bleak to them.
But obviously they also had rackety as hell trams that would have fallen apart if they went speeds we would now consider hilariously slow, so like obviously the ideal is to take the parts of the past that were better and combine them with the nice things we have nowadays.
Like if i could go back to medieval times with modern medicine and a copy of the communist manifesto that'd be pretty sweet.
It's cool that the future kid has a scanner to see power levels
It shows how much power your parents were rich enough to get implemented in your DNA, so you can determine if the other guy is of a high enough energy class to be talking to you.
l don't wanna sound like an old man but I'm gonna say it, old times were better because you were young and free.
