>>507939862
>Depends on what you want to buy.
>While an ordinary iPhone
I'm mainly talking about stuff like daily groceries.
>even richest billionaires today don't own anything like pic related
Sure, because you only had to pay an artisan 2-3x the wage of a peasant, while nowadays you'd need to pay them something like $100-200K. Anything handcrafted essentially became less accessible after the industrial revolution.
>>507939896
>I call bulshit on this most poeple at that time were pesants.
Afaik France was overpopulated by 18th century standards. Also, peasants still had to pay taxes.
>No one would work at factory if that was the case.
Non-land owning laborers trapped in the cities didn't really have a choice.