Be born in the 1300s

>be born in the 1300s
>be a slave to your serf slaving away all day 24/7 for your master
>your siblings all died of famine
>have to worry about not starving all day
>if there is a war or a barbarian invasion you will most likely die horribly and have your female relatives raped and your crops burned/stolen
>you will die because of the black plague in agony


>be born in the 1990s
>you can eat as much as you like, never worry about starving
>have access to all the knowledge you want to instantly
>most illness are curable
>you will most likely live to your 90s
>your biggest """problem""" is that you aren't popular among your peers so you're "depressed" or suffer from "social anxiety"


Wow

Daily reminder that no happy, normal and well adjusted person would ever post these threads

The fuck?

You're just as bad as the people who overly romanticise them times. Sure physical standard of living is greater, no one is arguing that. What they are arguing is that we have lost other psychological factors that contribute to happiness Eg community, belonging etc. So when you say that they will be physically better off the only person you're beating in the debate is the imaginary one you've attributed these views to.

>community, belonging

You live in a fucking massive city, that's a giant community you retarded fuck

Good argument.

>managing to be this awkward while trolling

good first attempt tho

This akward

What was akward about what I said?


Also it's not trolling

>all day 24/7
fucking medieval peasants had more holidays in a year than you will have in your whole life.
>starving
people weren't fucking starving to death constantly, the majority of mortality was probably caused by the lack of proper hygiene and sanitation. Sure, famines did happen, but it wasn't a weekly occurence
>barbarian invasian
>europe
>1300s
okay
But yeah, wars were pretty shite for the lower classes.
>never worry about starving
You have to work for that food as well, probably more time on average. Mental labour is often more tiring than manual. It drains your soul and will to live if you have to sit next to a computer screen for hours without barely any human interaction. Education is also a pain - especially in countries like Japan or some european ones. I much rather enjoy trimming the hedge or digging in a garden for 4 hours than memorizing some pointless nonsense word-by-word for the same amount of time.
>live to your 90s
Sure, but what kind of life will it be? A wage-slave life of sitting, no traditions, no sense of a close knit community, no proper sense of belonging to anywhere. Material wealth and physical well-being isn't everything a human person needs to be truly content and happy. I truly would argue that even considering the ailments of a medieval peasants more felt more fullfilled about their lives than some of us nowadays.

Just because it was technically a holiday, doesn't mean there wasn't tons of back breaking work to do that cant just be ignored. Ask any modern farmer. They get up at the same time on Christmas day as any other day.

They wuz gods n shieeet. Neba work, immortul and all party and virtues. Harems of 10/10 quties to bred.

Living longer doesn't mean life is better OP. Most people work jobs they would never do unless they got paid for it, and do so 40 hours a week.

>I don't like muuuh desk joooob!

Then get another one

If a peasant went

>I don't like breaking my back under the sun!!

The other option was starving to death

Then just imagine how fucking bad socially awkward serfs had it

ALSO
this is a false equivalence, because there are still many places on earth to this day where people's living conditions are very similar to what you described in the first post

>reading comprehension

And nobles lived lives pretty similar to citizens of developped countries now, with minor changes

Standards of living have just gone up

>Then just imagine how fucking bad socially awkward serfs had it


There wasn't time for your pussy bullshit, no one was socially awkward, whatever the fuck that means, you worked or you starved, there wan't time to hide in your room and fuel your childish paranoia.

>trade a desk job
>for another desk job

Lmao you should like write a book man

You're a fucking retard, you have zero real problems so you have to make up ones

Stop being

>woo is me, le victim

and start being grateful, you lazy fuck.
I fucking hate this generation of pussies.

>replying to the meme part of my post and ignoring the point I was making aside from that
truly, m'lord, thou art the moste flamingue faggotte

I'm agreeing with u nigga, learn to read before writing dat book

Or you could work in a trade like carpentry, welding or as an electrician.

>implying he didn't clearly mean get another job other than riding a desk

>Le victim

What the fuck does that even mean you sperg

To this:

>because there are still many places on earth to this day where people's living conditions are very similar to what you described in the first post


Yes, those places (you mean SSA Africa and underdeveloped countries in Asia and S America) are hell on earth, so it validated my point, I don't get, are you agreeing with me?

Good.

Ok, I thought you were being ironic because of the "lmao"

Are you mad or something, m'lord?

I was you idiot, why kind of ignorant ill informed rant is that? You need a doctor

>giant community you retarded fuck
Ever lived in a large city? It's a lot of things but a community it is not.

You're a fucking idiot then
>A city isn't a community


The fuck am I reading?

>He really thinks he knows enough to write a book.

Maybe if he gets a ghostwriter, and write about his summer vacation on Veeky Forums

I surely know more than you


I have a life unlike you, you stupid victim complex ridden manchild

Yes retard, a modern big city is sociologicaly the same as 200 years ago, social dynamics are the same, psychological influence is the same...
You are smart

You live in a city inside a state, inside a country

You live in several matrioska-like communities, you have much more sense of community than a fucking serf

>I have a life that I unlike

Game set and match, loser

> non sequitur: the post

You are out of your mind if you live in a city you will be surrounded that by thousands of neighbors packed in a square mile and maybe know one or two of them on a first name basis. That is not a community that is an anti community.

Retarded fuck: the post

Go get a job because you clearly are a lazy child who needs to work his bones off before speaking with the likes of me

>packed in a square mile and maybe know one or two of them on a first name basis.

And?

You think this was different for serfs?


It was not.

>That is not a community that is an anti community.

Excuse me?

This community guarantees you the right to vote, to choose the job and life you want, to travel where you want, to know what you want, not such luck in a medieval community where you were a slave to your lord and had no right.

Don't even bother, he is trolling

Where do you get your information know the life of serfs?

>If he doesn't agree with my romantic childish view of the past he's trolling

Go fuck yourself.

Serfs knew their neighbors. They depended on them. Community doesn't mean what you think it means.

Nothing romantic about it. I just realized you are the guy who romanticized the serfs life playing on reverse. It's breddy good bait, I'll give you that. I even feel foolish for wasting my time

This. the material codependency that is necessary in a society like that implies MAJOR differences in social life

I'm a german and from my grandparents and grand grandparents I know that it was different even 100 years ago. I also see the difference if I travel from the land to the cities. The development of the land is way slower. This let's you see back into the past a little bit. People on the land know their neighbours, their town, hundreds or thousand people. When I moved to some bigger cities I didn't know anyone. I am living in a major city now for 3 years, I know maybe 5 people from my university, but nobody where I am living. You don't have a sense of belonging, especially when you are not a full german (and right now there are a lot of half spanish, italian, vietnamese, turkish, greek etc. people here). The identity is just lost.

This is all very dependent on what time in the middle ages you were born in. Before the famines leading up to the plague there was a pretty good chunk of time 300 or so years that there wasn't too much social upheaval. Some serfs inevitably saved up enough to establish their freedom as peasants and occasionally advanced unto being merchants. Following the plagues less and less people could be serfs due to rapid depopulation and the decrease in cost of land. Most serfs didn't work more than 4-6 days a week, which I've plainly done more of just working in a kitchen.(not that I mind)

Most people are still poor slavecucks, not whole world is first world

I'm talking about Europe, Einstein.

> Btfo
>crawls back to reply to the shortest post in 30 min to save face

OP I...

BTFO by what?

>modern life is so hard xd

After getting higher education

Please, please kys. You'd be doing us all a favor.

Yeah, with all the multiracialism and homosexuals, it's a great community. It's not like multiracialism isn't proven to decrease community trust and cohesion.

Wow, you got some anger issues, maybe leave your house and get a life, start interacting with people and you'll be less frustrated
>muh multicultureal boogeyman

Go the fuck back to and don't come back, please.

id rather be a slave to a catholic monarch the same race as me than some fortune 500 company.

You do have a point about living your life without a sense of community and belonging. This is an issue in places with forced multiculturalism like in most of the West.

>be born in the 1980s
>eternally laugh at people born in the 1990s

>the same race

You think that this is acceptable on this board?

It's not, and it will never be.

You poltards keep pushing this race meme but it will never win here, we know better, believe me, you're just a scared little man hiding in his room, while immigrants work their ass off escaping from war, how dare you speak ill of them?

Race is only skin deep, AKA it doesn't exist, jsut different colors/facial features, and they're all beautiful, now fuck off to don't let the door hit you on the way out, au revoir.

>Race is only skin deep, AKA it doesn't exist, jsut different colors/facial features, and they're all beautiful, now fuck off to Poor attempt, you've overdone it.

Are you really so deep in your own bullshit that you think I'm joking?

You know 90% of people out there, aka normal people, are not racist who care about

>muh white race, muh white children

Normal people don't care about such autistic bullshit because they care about their own accomplishments, not about a false concept like sex to give them a sense of purpose

>like sex

I meant like race, either way, racism might be common on Veeky Forums but it's not out of here

Yawn.

>xD everyone must be a poltard, how dare you not be a brainless tard like me


You know the world isn't just your little board dedicated to retards and social misfits?

Most people in the real world don't think like poltards except for a few old rednecks

By all means continue, it's amusing.

>Race is only skin deep
Not even liberals believe that.

You need to develop some self-awareness.

>thread devolves into /pol/tard vs regular tard

>call office work wage slavery
>as opposed to literal slavery in the form of serfdom

>Race isn't only skin deep, just look at how different their skin is

Clearly an intellectual heavyweight over here.

It sounds like someone has a hard time making friends. Have you tried a hobby? Something that doesn't marginalise others, perhaps?

OP you're a shitty troll. All your posts are nothing but autism and reddit spacing. Please go back to r/theredpill or whatever edgey fag den you came here from. Seriously, fuck you for wasting my time.

That's just a crowd of people... not a community

ITT 'I have trouble making friends, living over 50 years ago would somehow fix that problem'

>They get up at the same time on Christmas day
to do what?
Harvest the snow crops?

It's totally deferent with serfs, like a 60 person village with everyone working close to one anouther instead of thousands of people, with your nighbers working at the otherside of the city and when they come home they isolate themselves on their magic rectangles.

You have to go back.

also, serfs and peasants are two separate things.

>Reddit spacing

You're an idiot, kys.

Yes and no. All serfs were peasants but not all peasants were serfs.

turn 18 before you post here baby boy

Where's my temple of the sun?

>doesn't even know the names of his neighbors
Some community.

>when I move to a new place I don't know anyone
~whoah~

>not being of nobility

He's right though.

>live in a rural village as a kid
>everyone knows each other
>birthdays, weddings, graduations etc are all celebrated with neighbors
>when someone needs something, the plumber neighbor fixes your toilet, the butcher neighbor slaughters a pig, the construction worker neighbor helps you repair a roof, the neighbor with a huge apple orchard shares apples with you, etc
I moved into a city in my 20s
>nobody knows anyone
>"""neighbors""" don't even make eye contact with one another much less become friends
>if you need a toilet repaired you call a plumbing company, etc, neighbors don't give a fuck
>nobody cooks anything, everyone eats out like a faggot
>druggies, sluts and other degenerates are rampant
I would gladly move back to a small town if my faggot job wasn't holding me here. Cities suck total dick for literally everything but money.

>everyone would get along if all the people i hate just fucked off

You and a lot of people in this thread don't understand basic economics. Human needs are infinite, the moment you satisfy one another pops up that's generally harder to satisfy. You need to satisfy the basic needs to survive and the ones that follow to be happy and fulfilled. In the end we never have all our needs satisfied and in chasing them we end up in a loop
>You're hungry - get food
>You're thirsty - get water
>You're cold - get clothes&shelter
>You're lonely - get a wife and friends
>You're poor - work harder, focus on making money
>You're tired - spend less time with friends&family
>You're stressed - get addicted to something(not necessarily drugs)
>You're sad - get addicted further
>You're an addict - fail to quit
>You're hated by your peers - fail to reconcile
>You're lonely
>You're poor
>You're hungry
>You're thirsty
>You're cold

I live in a city and communities are not unknown. I run into people I know all the time and this city has 800,000-1 million people. Theres neighborhood events and subcultural gatherings all the time. I chat with the baker down the street, see my neighbors in the train station, even know some of the priests here and I'm not even christian. Normally in a city you'll find a bunch of communities. You can either belong to one or many or be forever alone. But thats up to you.

>being a Maslowcuck
I bet you also read those Carnegie self help books.

Nope, I usually read about the antiquity. What's wrong with Maslow's pyramid?

You gonna buy some land and move back?

Lad plz. My parents are Ukrainian your between 1990 and 1300's lasted until 2006