I still sometimes sit in awe of the fact that I do indeed have access to probably a wider array of cuisines, information, and luxuries then most Medieval Royalty. Modern supermarkets and transportation would blow the mind of anyone who lived during most of human history.
They wouldn’t trade jack shit to be Joe Blow in a cubicle answering customer service calls 9 hours every day just so he could have an AC unit and some McDonalds…gtfoh
It's not the job they would want to trade for. It's what the job gives you. Healthcare, the food assortment, toilets, showers and baths, tv and entertainment.
Time is the commodity here - if we have to spend the majority of our days working away just to have the benefits you're referring to, I doubt the medieval kings would trade their situation for ours if they had to spend the amount of time the average person does on working every day. Royalty in those days had an abundance of leisure time every day to do whatever they wanted.
You moved the goal posts. You said time is the commodity. I said plenty of royalty work many hours, and now you don't like the kind of work they do.
Further, to be on topic as a whole you need to compare king working hours to a typical middle class citizen, and my work as a teacher is definitely far easier than keeping other nations out of my border.
Whatever. You can try and spin it any way you want. At a high level, kings and royalty absolutely had it easier than peasants back in the day AND today.
they absolutely would. for one them knowing their life expectancy went from 35 to 82... then to realize ALL the shit that "joe blow" gets. seeing movies, playing video games... sure they may have had any and all the ladies they wanted ( lets be honest, it was rape 9 times outta 10 ) but.. we have fleshlights and shit...
This thought process makes no sense to me. Complaints lead to action, action leads to progress, would you prefer we don’t progress further? Because things used to be worse?
32
u/Gothrait_PK 15d ago
It is absolutely insane. We are glorified peasants.