Not really. Peasants generally only worked like 6 months, 3 months they couldn't do a lot cause of the winter and and 3 months off because they had provided their Lord with everything they owed and there were a LOT of feast days back then too. Even when they were working, it wasn't the back-breaking labour we imagine. There were periods of hard work like the harvest but other than that it was pretty chill, they just needed to tend to the crops/ animals. Then they could have huge arse meals throughout the day with all their top quality home-grown ingredients, with their kitchens (and bedrooms for the kinky sorts) being on the same property as their farmland.
Peasants were often better nourished than nobles. The decline in 'commoner' health came with the industrial revolution, which is also where the long hours came in; and those people were working themselves to the bone without access to good quality food, and all the good imports to the city would be taken by the wealthy leaving the urban poor to waste away with little or bad quality food.
Feudal farming peasants legit had a life that is better than 90% of those alive today. You can take your fucking "you can be anything career" and stuff it, because 90%+ of people work shitty dead end jobs, and many of them had to go through depression and anxiety with rejection and terrible interviews and stints of feeling worthless while they were unable to even get a job. I can guarantee nearly every single person I know would have far preferred to have had a 'family profession' that they would grow up learning, they would have loved to be around family all day, and the very frequent feast days where they'd meet up with the cutie farmer's daughters from the region would have been amazing.
Modernity is shit and you have all been deceived. Life might be a bit better now than it was when everyone was coughing their guts up in factories during the early days of the industrial revolution; but before that it was great.
Owen Wright
I'll have you know I've fucked around at every job I've ever had
Robert Evans
Not only this but they worked lands they didn't own. The Lord of the land owned everything, and if need be, could strip a serf or peasant of their possessions to benefit his manor. A peasant or serf owned nothing, as it all belonged to Lords. Even knights were bestowed with this power, they too could strip any/all serfs or peasants of their belongings if they "needed" them. Serfs and peasants were also taxed to death.
Wyatt Stewart
>Working a few hours of manual labour for less than half the year is hard in any way. >Having some blankets and warm clothing for the winter and a roof for the rain is hard. You're looking down on them too much. Sure they didn't have central heating but that has never been required for survival. Burning wood was a very popular method of keeping the house cozy especially back in medieval times when most of Northern Europe was covered in trees. >Peasants were taxed to death. >With 'super high evil noble taxes' being at 15% of grain income alone. >Meanwhile in Europe 50% is completely normal.
Carter Bell
So in exchange for working a few more hours a day, we get to live with electric lighting, motorized transportation, various qualities of food, digital entertainment, more gadgets than we know what to do with, clean sheets, nice clothes and pretty much everything the peasants wished they had? I'm okay with that.
And now compare living standards. Everything we have now from running water to the internet are incalculably better than any of the shit they had in the medieval ages.
If you want to go back to medieval conditions then go fuck right off into the woods and start digging up wells and get planting bucko.
Leo Wright
WHAT, SO YOU WANT COMMUNISM THEN!? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Benjamin Reed
Seasonal work I'd assume. They didn't have giant heating systems. Also, I'm pretty sure my life is better than dying in my 30s and famine.
Jason Rodriguez
Chad medieval peasant lived a life you can't even imagine, its like comparing you to Bloomborf lmao
Chase Edwards
>Sitting at a desk and doing excel sheets is the same as plowing a field all day
