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sonderlingg t1_ity1nn6 wrote

Now think how many living things there are on Earth.

And how lucky you are just to be human, not some insect being eaten from the inside by parasitoid wasp's larva

Btw where did you get 0.07%? There were about 117 billion humans in total. So it makes 8/117 = ~6.83%

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Economy_Variation365 t1_ity8m92 wrote

I believe he simply divided 200 years of electrified history by 300,000 years of homo sapien-osity.

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mewme-mow t1_ityzakl wrote

Whenever I'm bothered by trivial things I try to appreciate being born as a 21st century European instead of any kind of wild animal (most of them live in pretty hellish circumstances when you think about it) or a medieval peasant, or even Louis XIV.

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UnionPacifik t1_itzhjl9 wrote

Fun fact, medieval peasants worked less hours a day than the average Westerner living today.

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2Punx2Furious t1_ityofsh wrote

> There were about 117 billion humans in total. So it makes 8/117 = ~6.83%

But that only counts past humans. Of course, we can't know how many humans there will be in the future (if any), but that number is probably higher.

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-ZeroRelevance- t1_itzmlc3 wrote

In such a case we may actually be cosmically unlucky, assuming humanity manages to spread across the galaxy and prosper for millions of years, creating many orders of magnitude more humans than have ever existed in history.

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