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Also don’t forget:
Medieval peasants worked on average (depending on the area and era you are looking at) 30-60% less hours per year than present-day wage-workers
Medieval peasants who worked on someone else’s land could elect not to go to work on any particular day and just not get paid for it (that’s how weekends were created)
Medieval bosses (i.e. land-owners) were responsible for feeding their workers for the day with breakfast and lunch.
Usually lunch during field work was followed by a customary 2-3 hours nap.
Meanwhile, taking the UK as an example, productivity has grown exponentially. Goes to show how exploited the working class is. If production was more evenly distributed, and part of the growth in productivity was allowed to be returned as free time, imagine how much better quality of life would be.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-hour
Things were so much better when the average life expectancy was in the 30s and every third child died in infancy and nobody knew how to read or write and there was no separation of church and state and society was constantly plagued by an endless cycle of famine and disease
none of that shit about famine or plague or life expectancy has shit to do with your income or your relationship to your labor
The point I was making was that to pretend people are worse off now than they were during the Middle Ages is ridiculous
The point of the meme is that a modern-day wage labourer is exploited way more than a medieval wage labourer. There’s nothing there about famines, plagues and wars (which by the way only went away from Europe to an extend for the past 80 years, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be staying away).
Among peer countries, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth for both women and men
A life expectancy at birth of 78.4 years for the whole population compared to 31.3 years JUST for English males who were lucky enough to be born to land-owning families
According to your data, the United States has an infant mortality rate of 5.4 per 1,000 births, or 0.54%. For comparison, an estimated 30% of babies in the Middle Ages died before their first birthday and only about half reached adulthood
These claims are very misleading. The actual share of US adults who are illiterate is closer to 12%. In mediaeval times on the other hand, the VAST, vast majority of people, including the nobility, didn’t know how to read or write. Charlemagne, despite being a strong proponent of an educated citizenry, famously was himself illiterate. Writing back then was mostly reserved for the clergy
It’s certainly being eroded, but the present situation isn’t anywhere near as bad as it was in the Middle Ages. I don’t see anyone being burnt at the stake for heresy
With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases
Oh wow a whole three people died from measles
Food insecurity isn’t famine. There is no mass starvation epidemic in the United States and there never has been, except among the indigenous population. This is a country where over 40% of the people are obese for Christ’s sake
Super duper nice, good star. Show us where anyone said capitalism wasn’t a stage of final development, anyone saying it should’ve never happened?
You’re comparing a system that lets people suffer unnecessarily with a time of lower technological development. It’s literally apples and oranges, not to mention you’ve failed to address what they meant, something someone else spelled out.
