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There were periods in medieval history when a typical peasant only worked ~150 days out of the year. While you are right that life was difficult, your sense of
by danharaj 8y ago
There were periods in medieval history when a typical peasant only worked ~150 days out of the year.
While you are right that life was difficult, your sense of the past is warped to the point of caricature.
- endtime 8y agoI'm sure it's possible to work 150 days a year now if you are okay with that standard of living.
- tzahola 8y agoTrue. However, the rest of the time was spent with military duty (feudal levy), preparing/preserving food, collecting firewood, takig care of livestock and general homesteading like repairing your mudbrick house.
- ekianjo 8y agoyeah and they had nothing to eat at all some years if the harvest was bad, and no medical care and most people died in their 30s. So, which scenario do you prefer?
- danharaj 8y agoOk, so now you're making an observation about medicine instead of hours of work. What exactly is your point here? Things are better now than they were in the past, so there's no reason why they should be better?
- ekianjo 8y agoI mentioned harvests which have nothing to do with medicine. I know we don't suffer from famines nowadays but this was a real thing before.
- cdelsolar 8y agomost people didn't die in their 30s, if you could make it through childhood you'd usually live to your 60s/70s.