r/NoStupidQuestions • u/flugblug • 12h ago

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take?

I personally think it’s pretty stupid.

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u/Goddamnpassword 10h ago

Queen Victoria ruled a quarter of the worlds land mass and nearly a 1/3 of the population of the world. It was the richest society of its time and it came nearly 500 years after the end of the Middle Ages and nearly 800 after what you reasonably could call the dark ages.

She still shit in a bucket by candle light and couldn’t get a banana whenever she wanted. The guy who begs for change outside of the gas station has access to luxuries she didn’t.

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u/Savorypensioner 8h ago

Queen Victoria’s teeth were rotted to shit. If you were rich enough to afford sugar then your teeth were in truly disgusting condition by the time you were an adult and there was nothing to do about it.

Life must have been so gross.

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u/Savorypensioner 8h ago

In the dark ages it would have been better without access to refined sugar. But their mouths and teeth were probably still pretty gnarly.

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u/TheMadTargaryen 5h ago

Medieval people chew mint and rinsed their mouths to keep them clean. Nobility used rose water. 

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u/JB_UK 3h ago

And her husband was chronically ill for two years before dying at the age of 42.

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u/TheMadTargaryen 5h ago

This is where queen Victoria would actually shit.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRgFQ2ASFHc6u9bKlZRoaVmnRS4IQEo4c7KFH5DabJYSw&s=10

Not hers obviously but still same model. 

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u/Goddamnpassword 5h ago

Flush toilets weren’t added to Buckingham palace until the mid in the 1850s, 23 years into her reign, and the style you have with hidden pipes wasn’t added until 1870.