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These are both bunk, or at least they're overexagerations of the troubles to be overcome, 'especially' the notion you are putting out of life being to much of a scramble of survival for levity and games, at least in any(read: 99%) time/place where there's stability enough for people to fuck around. There is that factiod that gets thrown around saying peasents worked less hours then modern people and there is a lot of iffiness to be had about definitions and the like around that it is something that is or isn't true depending on how you measure it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRwwXxhXdHU


If someone(s) were really were determined to do a production of a hundred bits of art on thin rectangles with a bit of rules writing to go with it nothing is going to stop that crew from making thousands of slips of it over a month other then outside intervention. Among those who have use for writing material which could be used for cardbacks the paper/papyrus/whatever else was never in short supply, the troubles had always come from the effort of getting all those words down into copies of big books. Most people of any means should have had access to playing cards long before the guttenburg days since early tarot/suites are a 1400s thing.

https://youtu.be/H_nT6EFUZmI?t=276