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Really? Why don’t you ask homeless people with no access to shelter, health care or dental care if they feel like Kings/Queens?

WalterBright 5y ago
They can walk into any emergency room and get free care. Kings had zero access.
- mbrodersen 5y ago
  Only the minimum legally required (for them to not immediately die). After which they are shown the door.
  - WalterBright 5y ago
    Kings didn't have any. They didn't even have clean water.
    - mbrodersen 5y ago
      However Kings did have shelter, plenty of food, easy access to sex, lots of fun and games, the respect of everybody, the best protection in the land, the power to behead or torture anything they didn't like etc. So lets be fair when we compare the two.
      - WalterBright 5y ago
        They died young and were shorter. Shorter is indicative of poor nutrition. If you're in Europe, look at the royal armor in museums. Those would be kid size today. The same goes for colonial America. Take a look at the clothing in the Fort William museum (from the 1700s). It's so small.
    - coldtea 5y ago
      Where does that impression come from? Even whole cities had running water, all the way back to the Roman era. Heck, Rome I said? Ancient Knossos, over 3000 years back: "Water technologies included running water within the palaces and other settlements, drainage systems, piping systems, rainwater harvesting, and other technologies." https://iwaponline.com/ws/article/17/4/1106/15032/Hydro-technologies-in-the-Minoan-Era https://iwaponline.com/ws/article/17/4/1106/15032/Hydro-tech...
      - WalterBright 5y ago
        Running water is not the same thing as clean water. Cholera (from contaminated water) was endemic. Even wells were infected with cholera from sewage.
- coldtea 5y ago
  Kings had access to the best doctors of their era. Medical knowledge was just less. Not due to lack of access though. And Kings didn't need to do 99% of the back-breaking back modern poor have...
  - WalterBright 5y ago
    Medical knowledge was negative, not just less. George Washington was killed by his doctors. > And Kings didn't need to do 99% of the back-breaking back modern poor have... What back breaking modern work? Machines do that today. We don't have rope lines of people pulling stones uphill anymore.
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WalterBright 5y ago

They can walk into any emergency room and get free care. Kings had zero access.

mbrodersen 5y ago
Only the minimum legally required (for them to not immediately die). After which they are shown the door.
- WalterBright 5y ago
  Kings didn't have any. They didn't even have clean water.
  - mbrodersen 5y ago
    However Kings did have shelter, plenty of food, easy access to sex, lots of fun and games, the respect of everybody, the best protection in the land, the power to behead or torture anything they didn't like etc. So lets be fair when we compare the two.
    - WalterBright 5y ago
      They died young and were shorter. Shorter is indicative of poor nutrition. If you're in Europe, look at the royal armor in museums. Those would be kid size today. The same goes for colonial America. Take a look at the clothing in the Fort William museum (from the 1700s). It's so small.
  - coldtea 5y ago
    Where does that impression come from? Even whole cities had running water, all the way back to the Roman era. Heck, Rome I said? Ancient Knossos, over 3000 years back: "Water technologies included running water within the palaces and other settlements, drainage systems, piping systems, rainwater harvesting, and other technologies." https://iwaponline.com/ws/article/17/4/1106/15032/Hydro-technologies-in-the-Minoan-Era https://iwaponline.com/ws/article/17/4/1106/15032/Hydro-tech...
    - WalterBright 5y ago
      Running water is not the same thing as clean water. Cholera (from contaminated water) was endemic. Even wells were infected with cholera from sewage.
coldtea 5y ago
Kings had access to the best doctors of their era. Medical knowledge was just less. Not due to lack of access though. And Kings didn't need to do 99% of the back-breaking back modern poor have...
- WalterBright 5y ago
  Medical knowledge was negative, not just less. George Washington was killed by his doctors. > And Kings didn't need to do 99% of the back-breaking back modern poor have... What back breaking modern work? Machines do that today. We don't have rope lines of people pulling stones uphill anymore.
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