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>>50548940

I don't have to imagine :'( I just want to leave.

>>50548940
>objectively worse standards than a middle age peasants, just imagine
Working 14+ hours in the hot sun or freezing cold, breaking your body down. Dying before you even hit 30 thanks to abysmal or nonexistent health care. Superstition galore and no understanding of the natural world to cause high levels of fear.
You would not be happier in the slightest. You would be the same walking, talking piece of meat and bones that is still under the thumb of the elite. The elite being some rich lord who controls your land. You still owned nothing, and you definitely were not happy.

>>50548979
DRIVE YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT
THINKING ABOUT YOU BOY

>>50548940

>>50548990
what peasants were working 14+ hour days?

>>50548940

>>50548988
>Along time ago
>We used to be friends
>But I
>Haven't thought of you lately at all

>>50548988
I would kill myself if I had to do this

the system fears the independent farmer

>>50548990
Lmao, is that what your common core education has taught you?
If people survived infancy, they lived well into their 60's or beyond. Even as late as the 1900's infant mortality was still over double digits.

>>50548979
There’s something about you
It’s hard to explain

>>50548990
All of this is a post from red dit. You are from red dit.

>>50548990
Serfs in western Europe largely dictated their own hours, they just had to make sure they produced enough to pay tax to the church and the local lord. This varied by region, but was largely between 10 and 30 percent of what the assigned land could produce. Yes, healthcare was worse, but if you made it past childhood you had a good chance to make it to 70. Fear was mostly curbed by a genuine religious faith in god(s), similar to how our modern belief in science curbs our fears. You are right about not owning anything though, although serfs could often be quite wealthy if they utilized their land effectively.

>>50548990
average lifespan was mid 50s if you exclude infant mortality. cope and seethe, wagie.

>>50550739
Serfs didn't own land though. They also could't marry without their lord's permission and marriages were often arranged

>>50550475
>if you made it past childhood you had a good chance to make it to 70
nope

>>50550848
There went that many official marriages
People just hooked up and after a few years figured they go talk to a priest about it.
Most arranged marriages where among merchants family's and nobles.

>>50550848
>state requisitioned pussy
and this is a bad thing?

>>50549442

Everything after "back breaking" doesn't exist for me as I'm a blue collar.

Just go to a jobsite, hang some pipes and go home. Pretty comfy

>>50548990
>I watched crash course world history once

>>50551464
it's believable if you have no experience with hard, physical labor.
>yes goy they did 14 hours of back breaking labor 7 days a week on a diet of root vegetables, grain, and bread
>yes goy, EVERY DAY despite sowing and harvesting only occurring once a year

>>50550739
Seems pretty accurate but
>owned land
Wasn't the whole point of being a serf that you DIDN'T own it? I mean, free holder were a thing but they weren't serfs.

>>50551522
yeah that's probably the only thing that might be an outright lie on that meme. i was also going to say "high quality, handcrafted goods" until i realized that most modern clothes and shoes, unless you spend big bucks, are paper thin fast fashion garbage crafted by some vietnamese child laborer with a 6 month useful life before they start fraying and disintegrating.

You stupid cunts do know that they also didn't have antibiotics, vaccination and a raft of basic medical care, right?

Nostalgia is for fucking retards

Even in pre-modern societies the leader would have harems of women, near limitless access to high quality food and entertainments. The poor would have maybe a wife, poor quality food and a few festivals a year. In that way nothing has changed. Life was always good for the rich and powerful and horrible for the powerless and poor.

>>50550475
>similar to how our modern belief in science curbs our fears
it doesn't tho, it breeds new and unnecessary fears

>>50550848
would love for someone to arrange me a marriage
any day now...

>>50548979
I did this, been 3 weeks since my last day. feel like a real human bean again.

>tfw poor, tired, and forced to be an office slave.
I just need to get a wfh job…
I’m sending out applications, but if I get a response, do I put in my 2 weeks?

>>50548940
Nikkers

>>50551070
It's not a bad thing, I'm just saying that the image is misleading. There are other things omitted on purpose, such as the fact that serfs aren't free to move or to determine their labor. It also doesn't take in consideration the time period or location; serfs in the late middle ages or in eastern Europe had significantly less comfy lives than the early western serfs, for example.

>>50550739
True. Obviously you would've needed some luck to avoid atrocities of the day, but if you did, you'd live about the same as you would nowadays.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity

From 1200 to 1745.. "Those records show that child mortality remained high. But if a man got to the age of 21 and didn’t die by accident, violence or poison, he could be expected to live almost as long as men today:"

>>50550739
Serfs by definition didn't own land. They were usually born into debt bondage and couldn't leave their village without the lord's permission. Peasants were slightly freer in that respect and yeomen were peasants who were allowed to own land.

>>50552681
>high. But if a man got to the age of 21 and didn’t die by accident, violence or poison, he could be expected to live almost as long as men today
This isn't saying that much is it? "If you didn't die young you'd have a chance of dying old"

>>50548940
Saved

>>50552462
>serfs in the late middle ages or in eastern Europe had significantly less comfy lives than the early western serfs,
Lmao even back then eastern europeans were poor fags.

>>50551500
>the only reason they didn't work harder is because they had already worked too hard
>this means they had it better than people who could work every day but don't because they don't want to

>>50548940
Here you guys go i spent 15 minutes making this

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The reality for most people And soon 99% of people

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