finderscult@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Except medieval peasants had more holidays than modern AmericansEnglish
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5 hours agoThat’s really a western Europe thing and American thing. Even then no where near as much as you’re suggesting, not for the last 10k years or so at least. Beer/wine taking over and replacing water drinking unironically eliminated most of that, and in other cultures sanitation prevented it. English serfs had a lot of dysentery though, since they were too stupid to use Roman infrastructure.
Maybe we shouldn’t have supported Ukraine if it meant supporting genocide