Chelsea Follett: the past was worse than you think
Why do so many people – on the Right as well as the Left – look back fondly on a pre-industrial world they would never actually want to live in?
This week on The Capitalist, Chelsea Follett of the Cato Institute speaks with Marc Sidwell about her new book, ‘The Grim Old Days: An Introduction to the Preindustrial Past’. It sets out what life was really like before modern economic growth: famine every few years, streets that doubled as open sewers and a world in which parents put their surviving children to work instead of playing with them.
We discussed why the fantasy of cosy village life is…
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