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Kyle's avatar

Paypal asking what this is for and my putting in The end of the world. Made my day

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John Carter's avatar

Say what you will about medieval peasants, they only paid about 20% of their incomes in taxes (tithes to the Church and their local lord), and they enjoyed something like 150 days off work thanks to all the feast days.

Sure, they had no rights to speak of, short life expectancies, and suffered from malnutrition and regularly faced death by famine, but their lives had certain advantages over us moderns.

But really if you want to get jelly, paleolithic hunter-gatherer gigachads is where it's at. Good nutrition not reached again until the 20th century, no such thing as law, more or less absolute freedom, and a 10-hour work week that mostly consisted of activities we now consider recreation and hobby.

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