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“Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings.” That may be true from a purely materialistic point of view but a lot of the unpleasa
by spaetzleesser 5y ago
“Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings.”
That may be true from a purely materialistic point of view but a lot of the unpleasantness of being poor is stress. Not knowing if you can feed your children tomorrow, you may become homeless, if you work minimum wage you often get treated like crap. Medieval kings didn’t have to worry about that.
In short, this is a pretty condescending line mainly uttered by people who aren’t poor and don’t know how it is to be poor.
- Jensson 5y agoYou don't think there are any stressors related to being king? People constantly wanted to take your power, it isn't like the subjects are bound to serve, there are no contracts or laws or anything ensuring people do what you want, your only way to control things is to convince others do what you want. If you aren't careful you'd get poisoned, or hanged or ran out of the country from a coup or rebellion. Not to mention that everyone's children died in droves back then, even kings, having your kids die on you is stressful.
- DarylZero 5y ago> it isn't like the subjects are bound to serve What? > your only way to control things is to convince others do what you want LOL what?
- diob 5y agoAgreed, this is such a privileged point of view. This person wouldn't last one minute in the situations those homeless people are in, yet sees fit to pretend they are living better than kings.