[SanderNL]

Kings are a poor comparison. It’s a shit job and sucks in all kinds of surprising and non-surprising ways.

Are our poor better off than financially independent aristocrats of yesteryear? The kind that can be “an artist” or something their whole life. I guess in some ways it’s better now, more tech. But I’m not sure freedom and respect can be bought/replaced with tech alone.

[j7ake]

If you’re having kids, you would want them to be born in a poor family in modern day Germany than to aristocrats 300 years ago.

The infant mortality back then was brutal, even for the aristocrats.

[wruza]

But if you asked aristocrats to swap infant mortality with modern poor life, they might have a spectrum of opinions not necessarily leaning towards being poor. The point is that modern worries are also, well, modern.

[gmerc]

The infant mortality was high for everyone, poor or not. So it’s a bad measure