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Even a poor person with no dental insurance can get cheaper and better dental care than any Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh ever could. Not to mention even the cheapest wonderbread that is seen as the symbol of bland and boring is actually really, really revolutionary compared to any bread that came before it.
We're living in a world of healthcare denial by lunatics like RFK Jr. But once upon a time some geniuses at a boring bread company decided 'let us fortify our basic bread with minerals and nutrients that aren't normally there. This is being eaten by everyone anyway, so let us eliminate rickets and other vitamin/mineral deficiency diseases with something that costs next to nothing'.
And it fucking worked! I should mention that people like RFK Jr. were always around. In the first 30 years of the 20th century in the American South there were diseases that cropped up due to a lack of vitamins or mineral (my memory on the whole thing is fuzzy) that didn't happen before. This was because new machines to refine grinding corn threw out the stuff that contained the needed stuff to prevent those diseases. It took a long time for people to just say 'that shit was good actually, let's not throw it out!'