I don't fucking know dude I'm just a guy.

They were much happier because they only worked 3 minutes a year

>>17276186
you are on the wrong board

>>17276196
It's true @tradcathconquistador1488 told me so.

>>17276196
Also they celebrated religious holidays 364 days a year, had harems of virgin 16 year-old Japanese schoolgirls, had 20 kids on average, and niggers weren't invented until 1619.

>>17276144
The work part is true. They really did work less but there were some caviats.
If you were the towns only shoe cobbler and think you're going on vacation you can get fucked. Other peasants decided to do something based like making literal food come out of the ground and get months off. While you decided to do (or were born into) gay ass shoe cobbling (dumb motherfucker). Guess what? Everyone else thinks its gay so you're the only one and everyone needs shoes all year round. Don't have a journeyman under you? Or any guild workers? Looks like you're staying in the village and never leaving.
As far as nowadays, with industrialization and corpo farming it's pretty much work all year round. Gotta keep the lights on and the water running or shit will stink. Corpos are now the modern lords and they don't let anything like Christianity, the government, or ethical business practices get in their way.

>>17276144
They didn't have time to be sad. Life was one constant struggle for survival.

>>17276144
difficult to say because this is the personal thoughts and feelings of commoners were not the kind of things that were recorded in ancient times

>>17276144
My uncle live like that, and probably is the most happy guy alive

>>17276144
Virtually the same as today, it's our interaction with the world that makes us sadder/happier, not the material reality we live in.
And while you can argue that their relative poverty did make them sadder through hardships, the same can be said for us and our unstable environment.

>>17276144
Life in the past was strictly worse than life right now because the good things about life right now (abundant food, video games, internet, tv/movies, abundant clean/hot water, electric lights, air conditioning/abundant heat/house air circulation in general, even bug screens on windows, cheap abundant clothes, easy ways to make small cash, soda pop, etc) didn't exist in the past whereas the fundamental features of modern society that make it bad also existed in the past (undesirable/physically and mentally harmful labor, government tyranny, abusive superiors/bosses, violence, sexual abuse/violence, social harassment/mobbing/bullying, forced/unwanted social circumstances in general, poverty) literally everything that makes life bad right now also existed in the past including things that you might want to claim are symptoms of modern industrial society like harmful brain damaging chemicals, some of the dangers were just different not better, like instead of getting stuck in a trash compactor you might get bowled over and eaten by pigs or kicked in the head by a horse. People who talk about holidays are stupid because there was no government labor board/bureau in the past that you could complain too if you were forced to work, it would just be your parents/landlord withholding food/locking you outside if you didn't do what he says then threatening to cut your fingers/hands off if you eat food anyway, or beating you unconscious if you complain to the church they'll just give you some smug bible quote, if you complain to the nobility they'll probably beat you unconscious. The past wasn't a good place to live, there was literally nothing good about it not just in a relative sense but in an absolute sense as in there would be literally nothing to make an average person happy whatsoever in their day to day life.

>>17276285
This. As of now we struggle with life because our immediate needs have been fulfilled, so we feel dissatisfied and overthink life. They were just grateful to well enough to work, fuck and get drunk.

>Work less
>Have your own house
BUT
>1 bad harvest and half your kids + elderly died or the entire town is bankrupted by buying food
I can not work for 3 years on my current savings, that situation is not fucking happening in any other era.

>>17276992
>I'm a dysgenic retard with ADHD

>>17276274
like clockwork.
no. the 'peasants worked less than today's wagies' is completely false. stop spreading it.

>>17277192
We should have fighting pits in schools.
That could solve this.
The bad guy in Saw was right.

For clerics in medieval Europe, melancholy was a sign that you were living in sin and in need of repentance. But being sad meant that you were considered closer to God in the minds of many a Renaissance man

>>17277389
>if you enjoy pleasure and hate suffering then you're dysgenic and have adhd!!!

>>17276992
This.

>>17276274
back when people were less productive they worked less WOWWWWW

>>17278464
Yes, modern man has too much pleasure and convenience, and struggles too little.
It's unhealthy for the spirit

>>17276144
probably not, but they were more resilient and tough folks compared to the softness of modernity