"We live in times that Medieval Kings would be so jealous about."
But, do we? Do we have lives that royalty would find astounding?
- Accommodation
- Getting fed and watered
- Being clean and healthy
- Not being naked
- Freedom to live life
- Knowing stuff
https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2024/07/we-live-better-than-medieval-royalty.html
@miramarmike Many live better now than millionaires 100 years ago.
@stevewfolds do they though, do they ... you'd be surprised what I found
@miramarmike I’ve seen many examples.
The beers that made Milwaukee famous is just a microcosm of what was going on then in the US. I read this. Partner’s family had made the malting drums for all the beers.
@stevewfolds ok, here's one thing to disprove that statement (many others in the article). War, medieval kings could and often did declare war. Now, beer barons couldn't do that.
@miramarmike The intermarriages included hereditary arms billionaires. My thesis is they owned senators, so maybe a large thumb on scale about eagerness to go to war.
@stevewfolds "King", that's what I was writing about, not Baron, or Duke, King.
I hear ya, I do ... however ... 😁
@miramarmike Kings. Permanent live-in cook, a valet over the garage, white glove dinner service. Also magnanimous, the story I know bought a bar for the valet on his retirement. The grounds keeper & wife at country estate lived in a house behind the tennis court for free & subsidized for decades until they died in their late 80s.
His fiery sister-in-law (b. 1898) had dated J. D. Rockefeller & Willie Messerschmitt.
