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Re:Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern work... by umanwizard on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:47AM (#16659268)
By the time you became a monarch you had usually already survived to adulthood (child kings existed but were the exception). This biases the statistics considerably.

FWIW: I’d have (probably) died from pneumonia at age 5 without modern medicine. In reality it was curable trivially.

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