Not even close. I’d rather be alive now than in the eastern Mediterranean circa 530-550 AD, to name but one awful period in human history. Riots over chariot r

Not even close. I’d rather be alive now than in the eastern Mediterranean circa 530-550 AD, to name but one awful period in human history. Riots over chariot races burned or destroyed half of Constantinople in 532: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots A volcanic winter started in 536: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536 Plague of Justinian began in 541 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian I’d also rather live now than in China during the Taiping Rebellion.