[danharaj]

There were periods in medieval history when a typical peasant only worked ~150 days out of the year.

While you are right that life was difficult, your sense of the past is warped to the point of caricature.

[endtime]

I'm sure it's possible to work 150 days a year now if you are okay with that standard of living.

[tzahola]

True.

However, the rest of the time was spent with military duty (feudal levy), preparing/preserving food, collecting firewood, takig care of livestock and general homesteading like repairing your mudbrick house.

[ekianjo]

yeah and they had nothing to eat at all some years if the harvest was bad, and no medical care and most people died in their 30s. So, which scenario do you prefer?

[danharaj]

Ok, so now you're making an observation about medicine instead of hours of work. What exactly is your point here? Things are better now than they were in the past, so there's no reason why they should be better?

[ekianjo]

I mentioned harvests which have nothing to do with medicine. I know we don't suffer from famines nowadays but this was a real thing before.

[cdelsolar]

most people didn't die in their 30s, if you could make it through childhood you'd usually live to your 60s/70s.

[xvf22]

Care to provide a citation or clarify the period you're referring to?

[cdelsolar]

Citation: common knowledge of much higher infant mortality rates throughout history + the intricacies of the mathematical mean