

Here’s a half hour video on how industrial work differed from agricultural work
There are some cases where stresses back then were worse than today, but there are a lot of cases where today is worse from the point of view of certain stresses.
You also have differences in expectations. For instance, it was common for children to die due to different reasons. That vastly changes the parent-child dynamic.
You’re also having a problem that the new forms of distribution don’t seem to replace the revenue of old forms. A lot of people hoped that they could replicate HBO’s approach to streaming, but it turns out that it doesn’t work well if every streamer tries to be premium cable.
And if you raise prices too much, people stop paying.