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>A poor person today lives better than a king of old. That is an illusion to help people with their conscience. It does sound nice, but ... The poor maybe eat
by Clubber 9y ago
>A poor person today lives better than a king of old.
That is an illusion to help people with their conscience. It does sound nice, but ...
The poor maybe eat better and maybe have better shelter, and certainly access to cleaner water, but they have significantly less control over their destiny. Also, kings didn't have to work and they were (usually) extremely wealthy, had servants, and could do whatever they wanted to. Kings had people to help them raise their children. Kings also didn't die from an easily treatable but ultimately unaffordable medical condition. Kings usually didn't get evicted for not paying rent on time. Kings didn't get arrested for trivial things and have to spend time in jail because they couldn't afford a lawyer. I could go on and on.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago> Kings also didn't die from an easily treatable but ultimately unaffordable medical condition. They certainly did die from what we would today call easily treatable conditions. Antibiotics? Vaccines? Appendicitis?
- Clubber 9y agoI like how you retorted to only half of the sentence. >Kings also didn't die from an easily treatable but ultimately unaffordable medical condition. Kings died too, man!
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Kings also didn't die from an easily treatable but ultimately unaffordable medical condition. Worse, they died from medical conditions which could be survived with no treatment, because treatments with negative utility based on lore with no scientific basis were applied which the common folk would not have access to.
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- Clubber 9y agoI think George Washington was actually bled to death as a medical treatment.