Yes, in the 19 century they had mandatory paid vacation, universal Healthcare, paid maternity leave and paid vacation and a regulated 40h work week. At home machines cleaned their floors, their clothes and their dishes while their kids received free education.
Now we have black lung, hunger and child labor with a bunch of kids dying all the time stuck in chimneys, while Rockefeller owns half the world. Now we live in filth because our 80h work week doesn't allow us to manually clean our homes and since we need to use our houses in the middle of the night we are constantly dying of tuberculosis, Typhus and others.
Wait, I might have mixed the two...