See the thing is the benefits we have over peasants are just things that in the end help the billionaire class. Having more money and access to more goods just helps line their pockets more. Meanwhile the things peasants had that we don’t, the main one being the amount of time off from working, would not help the billionaires so they make sure we can’t get it so they can reap the productivity advances of technology to increase their wealth.
See the thing is the benefits we have over peasants are just things that in the end help the billionaire class. Having more money and access to more goods just helps line their pockets more.
Okay. It also helps us not die, and live in relative comfort, and save a great deal of time that would otherwise be spent on menial chores and labor. We take things for granted that past generations would have (and did) literally killed over.
Meanwhile the things peasants had that we don’t, the main one being the amount of time off from working,
This is exactly the misconception I was talking about, thank you for demonstrating.
Gotta love when people think that not having to work for an employer is free time and not “do what is effectively chores you need to survive”.
There are probably people in the developed world now where I could agree they have it worse than the average medieval peasant, but then we’re comparing the worst situation to the average.
See the thing is the benefits we have over peasants are just things that in the end help the billionaire class. Having more money and access to more goods just helps line their pockets more. Meanwhile the things peasants had that we don’t, the main one being the amount of time off from working, would not help the billionaires so they make sure we can’t get it so they can reap the productivity advances of technology to increase their wealth.
Okay. It also helps us not die, and live in relative comfort, and save a great deal of time that would otherwise be spent on menial chores and labor. We take things for granted that past generations would have (and did) literally killed over.
This is exactly the misconception I was talking about, thank you for demonstrating.
Gotta love when people think that not having to work for an employer is free time and not “do what is effectively chores you need to survive”.
There are probably people in the developed world now where I could agree they have it worse than the average medieval peasant, but then we’re comparing the worst situation to the average.