>Nothing about society or college was comparable pre-industrial revolution, unless maybe you came from wealth and are comparing the life of aristocracy. What's your inheritance?

We must be talking past each other.

I was saying that being a farmer, or not being a farmer, but with no more formal education than a typical farmer, was brutal.

People that could've done a hundred things with a college education spent their lives doing back breaking physical labor until they couldn't stand any more.