The fact that we can buy quality coffee, spices, and salt for such cheap prices would be unfathomably luxurious to almost every other person from human history pre-1910.
“Sure, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health … what have the Romans ever done for us?”
I remind myself of these things you and the person above you said every day. Plus, I would be dead without soap and antibiotics. I’m richer than most royalty throughout history and I’m on disability. I could be homeless and dead inside a month, I’m good right now, but there’s zero security. I tell myself I could be a Queen from back in the day living with an execution writ over her head if something goes wrong she has no control over, and try to handle things with as much grace as I can. The gratitude for all these things I can take for granted is profound though. Air conditioning is just amazing!
The fact that we can buy quality coffee, spices, and salt for such cheap prices would be unfathomably luxurious to almost every other person from human history pre-1910.
Imagine the richest king from 1700 watching you throw away mushy brown bananas. He’d think you were loaded.
“Sure, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health … what have the Romans ever done for us?”
Dont forget access to light 24hours a day, pumped water and sanitation plumbing. Those where more than luxuries when my grandparents were kids
I remind myself of these things you and the person above you said every day. Plus, I would be dead without soap and antibiotics. I’m richer than most royalty throughout history and I’m on disability. I could be homeless and dead inside a month, I’m good right now, but there’s zero security. I tell myself I could be a Queen from back in the day living with an execution writ over her head if something goes wrong she has no control over, and try to handle things with as much grace as I can. The gratitude for all these things I can take for granted is profound though. Air conditioning is just amazing!