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Re:Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern work... by ctdonath on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:58AM (#16658167)
I'd be dead four times over (and those are the obvious near-lethal maladies), and I just turned 50.
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Re:Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern work... by TheDanielD on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:29PM (#16661789)
A small percentage of the population uses the majority of the health-care. You would have died back then, but most of us would have been fine.
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