Message from @Pelth
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let alone how most people lived sleeping on the floor or outside
depending on what the local laws were
where did you get these ideas from? lol
the only thing they really had to worry about was the taxes which were usually low
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and they had to join the army during war sometimes
what we're discussing still exists in the world today where people live in subsistence farming and you can see it and how awful their lives are
it was far worse back in the feudal system
it only got bad later
when there were too many people
and lots of cities
"the only thing they had to worry about was the taxes"??? they regularly experienced famines and disease wiping out large fractions of their communities lol
not really
that happened later
omg, wtf are you talking about??? the reason that urbanisation happened is because agricultural enclosure produced so much more food
famines basically end when urbanisation begins
cities were the sources of disease
places where animals and humans live in mass and in close proximity
it's called the malthusian trap. england broke free of it first and that's why the economic viabiltiy of mechanisation came about
everything you're saying at this point is just a deluded inversion of basic educaiton in this history
it almost seems as if you're just making things up to suit some weird agenda you have
diseases aren't really natural
the reason that urbanisation happened and towns and cities grew in population is the break down of the open field system and the transition to agricultural enclosure
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not the deadly ones
they come from those city environments
why are you harping on about disease? diseases came and went all the time, the worse thing is the famines
the famines happened because of backwards stagnant feudal system
the diseases happened largely because of the famines
mostly from unsustainable cities
NO
JUST STOP
STOP
when a crop is low for that year and cities need a lot of food you get a famine
simple as
in the high middle ages began the privatisation of the commons and open field system and the creation of these early "capitalist" farms were far more productive
they produced more food with a lower number of workers freeing up the serfs and making them economically obsolete
well they basically just grew much more food than they needed, that's the only difference
THEN *because of* more food being produced with less workers, the result was large waves of urbanisation