Of course, but your chances overall are better today regardless of class/status etc.

Even being the child of royalty had no guarantees. For example Henry VIII had 13 legitimate children. Only 3 lived past infancy, and 1 of those died age 15.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Henry_VIII

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a newborn was 32 years. By 2021 this had more than doubled to 71 years.

in 1800, no region had a life expectancy higher than 40 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

What? I’m saying that if I was the kid being born I would rather be born today than in the 1500s.

Edgy…

Despite having no desire to have kids, I’d much rather be born today than pretty much any time before the last few generations.

Via our blood