Anonymous
11/1/2025, 1:57:10 PM
No.82978739
>>82977022
>be a middle age peasant
>essentially be a slave to your local landlord forced to work on his land for free and pay him much more taxes comparatively that you have to today (effective tax rate was about 50% but also included a bunch of other taxes like a tax for your daughter getting married, tax for using the communal oven etc. not to mention war taxes which could spike to rate like 80%)
>in addition to that you also have to work hard gruelling work on the fields with no modern mechanisation making it easier
>one bad harvest meant half of your family probably starved and died
>you probably also had gout meaning you were deformed and retarded because you didn't have a consistent source of iodine (unless you lived near the sea)
>you were also probably stunted due to childhood malnourishment and not enough meat (main source of protein was lentils as hunting and fishing was privilege of the lord and peasant couldn't afford to raise too much lifestock for meat)
>you also got arthritis at like 30 because you spend most of your time working the land
>you could die in a horrible way to any number of rampant diseases such as smallpox, TBC, dysentery, typhoid, mumps, plague
>or you could just die from an ordinary flu because of your weakened immune system and no antibiotics
>or you could die from vagrant soldiers pillaging the countryside because they weren't paid
Truly the idyllic life
>be a middle age peasant
>essentially be a slave to your local landlord forced to work on his land for free and pay him much more taxes comparatively that you have to today (effective tax rate was about 50% but also included a bunch of other taxes like a tax for your daughter getting married, tax for using the communal oven etc. not to mention war taxes which could spike to rate like 80%)
>in addition to that you also have to work hard gruelling work on the fields with no modern mechanisation making it easier
>one bad harvest meant half of your family probably starved and died
>you probably also had gout meaning you were deformed and retarded because you didn't have a consistent source of iodine (unless you lived near the sea)
>you were also probably stunted due to childhood malnourishment and not enough meat (main source of protein was lentils as hunting and fishing was privilege of the lord and peasant couldn't afford to raise too much lifestock for meat)
>you also got arthritis at like 30 because you spend most of your time working the land
>you could die in a horrible way to any number of rampant diseases such as smallpox, TBC, dysentery, typhoid, mumps, plague
>or you could just die from an ordinary flu because of your weakened immune system and no antibiotics
>or you could die from vagrant soldiers pillaging the countryside because they weren't paid
Truly the idyllic life