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Convenience is relative (media.piefed.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I get vibes of "the king requests an audience so you need to travel 20 days to get to the capital" vibes. You need to waste 41-50 days of your life because your manager wants to talk to you face to face for a few minutes.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    It's a break from the tedium of subsistance sharecropping...

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Do you think the king is going to send a laborer in your place?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    That's what your 16 kids are for, duh...

    Also, the whole village likely cultivates the same fields, so it's not like it's some private landholding that will fallow if you're not there to tend it. Long live the commons!

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    If the king request an audience with you, then you're probably some middle management as well, which mean you also do the exact same thing but this time to a peasant because they didn't pay enough tax or their tribute isn't as good as last year, so they have to waste a few hours of their life just so you can threaten them face to face.

    Medieval, amirite

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