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Giving up a access to modern medicine would probably be the biggest downside.



Also indoor plumbing/showers/toilets, all the hygiene products we use everyday that cost us basically nothing, indoor lighting (everything done at night was by candlelight and candles were expensive). So much of modern life we take for granted, it all adds up to a very different quality of life experience.


Also, at least some of your children are very likely to die before they grow up, and your wife is quite likely to die in childbirth sooner or later.


Different is the key word. We now also have parasocial relationships and disrupted circadian rhythms.




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