Did the Romans live better than us? | Quality of Life and Salaries
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Intro (0:00)
Tenant Farmer (1:38)
Soldier (6:58)
Aristocrat (12:51)
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We hope you enjoyed the video as much as we enjoyed making it. Make sure you make it to the Aristocrat's lavish feast at 20:24!
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Today: "What color is your Bugatti?" Roman times: "How purple is your purple?"
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When you look at factors like occupational hazards, working hours, child labor, pollution,... It's quite possible roman plebeans had much better lives than 1800's factory workers.
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Yes I agree, the rising cost of slaves is most troubling.
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The first guy was an employee. It sounds weird to read in history books that "all the food he farmed had to go to the landowner and he received a small payment in return", but it's simply employment.
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A single income providing for an entire family AND having savings? That's the Millennial dream
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1st guy: lives 2nd guy: lives and goes to a tavern 3rd guy: ,,i want this ostrich''
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So what I’m really hearing here is that you should make clothes in Ancient Rome. 4000 denarii for a cloak? With an average weekly pay of 125 for an average worker and less for a soldier? Insane!
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These are my favorite type of history vids. Most history vids are about the names in the history books, wars, big things. Not the lives of the average people and how they may have lived.
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Historians of AD 4122: "Richard had to spend $100 a week on food, $40-50 on gasoline, $12.75 on internet pornography, $45 for the phone the tax collectors used to spy on him, $25 on ammunition, $10 on lottery tickets, $5 on headache medicine, $10 on coffee, and $100 each for his car loan, credit card interest, insurance, and other things he keeps putting off until they're in collections. Once a year he dropped $1,000 on the delusional belief he was good at playing blackjack." I really hope none of our records survive the centuries.
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As modern Greek I can attest I live exactly on Theodorus' budget.
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Poor Tatianus, so many expenses to keep track of. I hope his feast was successful.
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Videos like this make you feel connected to history, that human existence is universal through time and cultures
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One can only imagine how the modern world would be if politicans at al levels would be held personally liable with their properties as guarantees for any shortcomings. Oh, what a (world) it would be.
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This type of content is very rare. Most of the other history channels focus on flashy topics like warfare and politics. Thank you for this. You could expand this type of content to other time periods and cultures. Although you should have mentioned how these prices were significantly bloated because of massive inflation and currency debasement
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Literally the only difference between now and then is level of technology and levels of general knowledge. That's wild
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It is inconceivable that Theodorus would not have access to a small family plot, so they could grow their own produce. And they lived on an island, so the odd fishing trip would not be out of the question. Given that he is committed to farming his landlord's land, he will have had time to take part in other trades in his local community. Also, feast days were fairly common and sacrificed animals would be made available for consumption. So there is a possibility the family had access to meat on such occasions.
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Just one observation regarding Theodorus... beeing pesant is not like beeing a xix or xxth century factory worker... there are no 8h factory shifts... some times theodorus would work on a field for 10 h but for majority of the year he would have a much more free time than present day workers... so it is probable that like early modern european pesants he would use that time in meaningfull way like reparing shoes or making table pottery or tanding to animals of his own for extra income
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The area in which industrialization most impressively reduced prices is clothing (even before manufacturing moved to low labor cost countries). The price of basic clothing in ancient and even medieval times seems ludicrous. For instance the fact that a sturdy wagon costs the same as a plain tunic is hard to comprehend.
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As a retired military, I can say not much has changed in the last 2000 years
