[freefaler]

If you're 15th century peasant in some of place in Germany you won't see retirement either you'd be dead by 45.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy

And your quality of life would be far worse than "in the queue with other 100 people"...

[FirmwareBurner]

Sure, it sucked being a peasant, but the original comparison was that the peasants of today have it better than kings of the past.

[flangola7]

The comparison was to kings, not peasants.

[freefaler]

Statistically the chance of being a king is miniscule... Currently king's don't sit in queues either. So the comparison is mingled. Compare kings of yesteryears with today's kings or common folk with common one today.

[gmerc]

I love how this somehow is used as an argument for todays wealth disparity. “Well kids, you could have been a Jew under Hitler, so go kiss Elons feet and be thankful” to put the argument to the max.