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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).