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I also suspect that on most metrics, most of those people are worse off than when they were subsistence farmers.

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I suspect that most ex-china 3rd world "gains" are a result of forcing subsistence workers into the money economy in a big way.

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Didnt avrg height of Europeans drop significantly due to piss poor nutrition+disease just after Industrial Revolution urbanization?

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I don't recall. Good point, and worth checking.

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So, Germany takes 70 years to recover, Netherlands about 45.

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For the UK, heart of the industrial revolution: 80 years approximately. That's an entire long life. More than the median or avg at time.