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POV looking up from the ground at an armored knight with the caption “E-mails? Work in the morning?
School? Filing taxes?
What are you talking about?
You must have hit your head pretty hard”

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[–] 70 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yes, instead we have gangrene, leptospirosis, trepanning, faith healing, no education unless you're clergy, forced labor for 95% of the population, a life expectancy of 40 if you're lucky...

Oh, and taxes! still got those. Have to pay for Richard's crusade, you know. Congratulations on being conscripted as a peasant spearman, now get back up and stand in line with the rest of the fodder.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Yup. If we're going to romanticise non-modern life, we should probably look to the hunter gatherer San people of South Africa. They are considered one of the most peaceful cultures and hardly had any previous records of conflict (except in the 1970s and '80s but that's a long story).

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    "Work in the morning? We are not Lords, our work starts long before the sun rises!"

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    oh thank god, it's just infections, disease, pooping in a buket and dying a violent death

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    *proceeds to die of diharrea*

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    Okay, Henry of Skalitz. May I have all the things you robbed from me while I was out cold back please? Also tell Hans to go fuck himself.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Wake the fuck up Peasant, there are fields to tend

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure filing taxes (taking all of 5 minutes) is a heck of a lot simpler for me than for any medieval peasant or minor nobility.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I dont have to fill out any complicated forms; I just have to give them like 3/4 of the produce grown on my farm. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    The amount (usually much less - unless there was some marauding army nearby) aside, it was more complicated than that. Taxation was delegated across a hierarchy of various stages; at each stage a mixture of negotiation, deception and coercion would be used to determine the taxation amount. The lowest-level tax collectors typically worked akin to a mob protection racket, and their own livelihood depended on extracting a surplus above what their employer (typically some noble) demanded.

    Certainly substantially less transparent and simple than clicking through an online form in a few minutes.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    My fingers feel....feel like wood.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    What about the "work in the morning"?

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