> Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings. That's definitely not true. That's a bias with some social researcher focusing on ce

> Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings. That's definitely not true. That's a bias with some social researcher focusing on certain metrics such as income and education level. But in many societies (especially prior to that period), quality of life was rather unrelated to anything measurable: mutualizing resources on a local scale provides quality of life improvements which cannot be measured by looking at commercial activity (money).