You realize 150 years ago was the year before the telephone was invented, right? Most houses didn't even have electricity back then.

I was an in-home caregiver before COVID, and we certainly didn't have to warm water on a wood fired stove to bathe the clients with. I didn't have to scrub the laundry with a washboard, we had a laundry machine. I could call 911 without interrupting CPR, which wouldn't have been possible even 50 years ago.