USA circa 1800
Quote: "Name me one country that does practice any of the above regulations at all where their people are not living in a corrugated tin shack and bathing in sewage and die when they are 40." You said:
USA circa 1800
Can't compare America of today with 1800 because it was an aguarian society.
I can compare it with america of 1890-1915 when it was industrilized and people worked like dogs.