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Peasants also died of dysentery and minor infections. Modern system is an improvement but it went out of control.
It wasn't this bad until the 70's or so. That's when the greed really started fucking us over.
Alternatives exist but they've never been successfully implemented, this is the best we have and it sucks. It'll definitely fail then maybe we can make something out of the ashes but I fear it'll be even worse.