Quote Originally Posted by Troggie View Post
It depends on your definition of 'good ole days' there are some people who besides medical care do live pretty much off the land without the need of many of the modern technologies including electricity.
That is the point. I'm not saying that our modern society is the best there could be, but honestly changes to live longer these days are much higher that say 50 years ago. At least here.
Of course there are many more improvements than medical care only. Living off the land will surely work for some, but the same percentage of people that did so 50 years ago, couldn't no longer make their living that way.