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Yes, because the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and wealth was pretty limited compared to what we have now. And they ruledover that wealth basicaly solely. So in this regard ~99% of the countries wealth was in the hands of a king or a few close people next to him. Why no? Because they had very limited means to create wealth. Current rich people have unlimited means to create wealth. They can release a thing and sell it literally everywhere to anyone and generate wealth for themselves hat way. You dont even need to create things, you can create a company, came up with an idea, create an association etc… There are many means to create wealth. So I think modern rich capitalists have unlimited means to become richer compared to the ancient/medieval kings. However a considerebly larger amount of people can become rich now. So the wealth distribution is also considerably greater. The weatlh we have now is shared amongs considerable amunt of people around us, even ourselves. When is the last time you have heard of a financier being punished for embezzlement of public funds let alone dying on the battlefield for his financial empire.

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If you look at it a certain way the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and answer is absolutely no. In fact you and I are richer than the emperor of Rome. We all have a lot of things that would cost infinity money back then. A very valuable thing my dad said when I was little was “I wouldn’t trade places with the Emperor of Rome.” And then explained why. This was in the late ’60s and we lived in a manner that all Redditors would find unnacceptable so his statement is even more true today. Depends whether you are talking about what they can do with their wealth or the power that money gives them? Your average medieval king owned less actual clothes than your average middle class American but he could have you killed in an extremely gruesome way just for funsies. Consider the following: in most Medieval kingdoms the king had to pay for the army out of his own purse. His personal property was enough to meet the financial requirements of supporting the whole army and navy.
The current US military budget is around $870 billion a year. The current richest man in America is Elon Musk, whose fortune is around $200 billion. Not $200 billion a year, $200 billion total. Which means the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and richest American’s entire fortune could only pay for around a quarter of the military budget for one year. Of course, that’s not exactly an apples to apples comparison because Medieval kingdoms typically kept fairly small standing armies. But as a ballpark estimate it at least illustrates the difference in relative power of the old nobility vs. modern billionaires. Also, I’d like to just call out using ‘capitalist’ as a synonym for ‘really rich person’. We’re all capitalists. If you have a bank account, a pension, own equity in your house, etc, then you’re part of the “capitalist class”. Speaking of which, interpreting your question more literally: yes, modern billionaires are richer than ancient kings, because we all are. Relative for their time a Medieval king might have been rich, but only relative for their time. They lived in conditions we would consider third-world today. Relying on open fires for heat, no lighting beyond candles, clothes made of scratchy fabrics. I own a microwave and a fridge, which is more than any Roman Emperor ever did.

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They sure live better than ancient/medieval nobility, which is arguably better. Richer in wealth vs power vs influence is a different story. Kings of old had a shiiiiitton of power, they were the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and judge, jury and executioner for majority of history. They created policy unilaterally until the nobility and merchant class gathered enough power to be part of a council. They made executive decisions and negotiated trade and influenced every part of society, their word was law. We don’t quite see that today due to the way power is distributed (for the most part across majority of the world). Yes, undeniably. We today live in greater luxury than those kings and pharaohs could have ever dreamed of. Modern plumbing alone puts us so far above them.
Not even close. Modern capitalists have “net worth”, which is not actual money or wealth. Ancient rulers literally enslaved entire regions, taking anything of value including people. Elon Musk has some big boats and houses. A middle class family is more wealthy than any emperor. You want to go another end of the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and world – you can. Medicine, information, quality of shelter, food availability and variety and so on. Billioniers have all that + all the other things on top. Emperors where more powerfull not more wealthy. If you think about quality of life even poor people are richer than ancient kings. Modern medicine? The internet, automobiles ability to buy a train or plan ticket. We live in a time of abundance. They didn’t even have AC back then and would die from a bad case of the common cold. I’m a capitalist, live in a shack in the woods, drive a 50 year old truck, and I’m rich. I get to do what I want when I want. What more do you want from this life? Kings had all these heavy responsibilities, people looked to them for leadership. What a sad and poor life to lead.
I’m “relatively poor” by todays german standards, but i live more comfortably than Louis-XIV of France. My flat has a water-flush toilet, his palace in Versailles had not. Also, my car has more horsepower than his biggest carriage had. What is money in its essence? Time. You buy food so you don’t have to spend the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and time hunting it or growing it. You buy take out so you don’t have to spend time cooking. You buy a car so you don’t spend time walking. When you look at it from that point of view then a billionaire has more time in their life available to them than a king from the 1500s. I’d rather be reasonably well off now than richest person in the world over 40years ago. Media access like Netflix or Spotify for most is way better than access to anything back then
The short answer is no. No amount of money can buy the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and kind of power kings used to have over people. Thank God! Yes because they have no feudalistic duty to take care of the elderly/infirm, defend and protect the peasants on their land, provide alms, feasts and celebrations, etc. What is wealth other than the ability to get people to do things for you? This can take many forms. Capitalism uses money as a form of incentive. Loyalty is a currency. Fear is another. Access to food and water are probably the best as incentives. Ancient kings were the head of a society that provided necessities and luxuries and they used loyalty as the carrot and fear as the stick. If you act in the best interest of your social group you get a carrot and if you act against your fellow man you get your hands chopped off.
I would say yes, the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and reason being, in medieval times a tooth infection could mean death, now it’s an inconvenience that the rich probably don’t even encounter. It’s impossible to say, because it entirely depends on how you define wealth. Just looking at what a month wages was then and now doesn’t tell you anything meaningful. The average worker today has a standard of living that is better than medieval kings. Not just technology like computers and airconditioning, but also the kind of perishable goods you can buy. If you take a look at historical recipes you’ll see that even the upper and ruling class in the past ate food that most people today would find extremely boring. Fuck, I’m richer than ancient and medieval kings. I live a longer, healthier life with clean food and water in a clean comfortable house with adequate heating and cooling, and if I get sick, an extraordinary network of people, machines, and drugs will help cure me. I can eat any fresh food out of season, I have been to every continent, I have flown in a multitude of conveyances. They definitely live better. One might even argue that the average person in the western world lives better than a lot of medieval kings depending on how much you value creature comforts vs. having political power. Castles were cold. THey had no running water. No electricity. Travel was still relatively slow and arduous. Food was not varied even if it was abundant. Maybe it was better in warmer climates. You are richer than ancient and medieval kings, in terms of convenience, medical care, education, and entertainment.
There are multiple different ways to think about what “rich” means. For example, you could think of it in terms of the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and lifestyle a person can afford. I personally can afford to live better than ancient kings in some ways, and I’m not even a billionaire. I can afford a better mattress than ancient kings had. I can afford better air conditioning than ancient kings had. I can afford more comfortable clothing than what they had. I can afford better medical care than they had. I can afford to travel the world faster than ancient kings could. I can afford greater access to information than they had. I can afford to have far more entertainment options available to me on call at any moment I want. Of course there are other types of things that ancient kings could afford much more than I. For example, an ancient king might get more massages than I. But again, I’m not a billionaire. I think modern billionaires can afford a more luxurious life than ancient kings in every way. It depends slightly, but in my opinion they are more wealthy in every sense that matters, except in comparison to poor people.
The direct values get slightly messy, because land has become so much more valueable than in the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and past, but someone like Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates makes more money than they would need to buy everything the roman empire produced over the same time period. Even the poorest people today are richer than ancient and medieval kings in absolute terms. But people care about relative wealth so everyone feels poor. I’d also consider modern rulers who will rule for life, where the government and the largest profitable industries are blended, and where the government has control of those industries. Kim Jong Un pretty much owns a country with a 50 billion dollar yearly GDP. North Koreans seem poor, but the country does make quite a bit of stuff.
Putin’s summer house cost nearly two billion dollars, and Gazprom – the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and government owned and controlled fossil fuel company – that alone is worth $40B. King Salman in Saudi Arabia… owns the Saudi oil industry. There’s a reason they could just kinda pay the Trump family $2B that one time. Xi Jinping in China is personally worth more than a billion, and that’s before getting to “controls the Chinese government and it’s holdings”. Contrast that with the British royals, who are a bit less than billionaires in whole, and don’t have any strong control over their subjects these days. Or maybe Napoleon, who had less than 5 million when he died (which would be closer to 125 million today. Mansa Musa had an amount of gold that would be just under a billion today.
So very, very few kings had as much money as the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and peak of modern capitalism. Andrew Carnegie a hundred years back had about 7 billion in today’s money, and was the third richest human (by cash value) to live. Henry Frick had 5x that or more. Rockefeller came closer to half a trillion; no one’s caught him yet. (The 93% federal income tax bracket was created for him and only him, even.) Ancient conquerors who built empires across dozens of countries, like Genghis Khan or Alexander, yeah, they probably had more, but that’s about it. The value of any slaves owned by an ancient king is overblown. They are only as valuable as they are productive, and due to pre industrial technological constraints, they weren’t very productive. The amount of food, raw materials, goods and structures a population of 10k slaves could produce, manufacture or construct in a year is insignificant to what a billionaire could simply pay modern day employees to produce using modern tools, equipment and materials, which the billionaires also have access to.
There is vastly more to spend money on in the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and modern world. We have OPTIMISED spending so less money gets more, and more money gets everything.
That sounds like most systems of healthcare here in Europe. I live in the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and outskirts of Sweden’s second largest city and within a 15 minute walk I have a hospital, a pharmacy, and won’t be charged for any visits or medication. I sometimes see Americans worried about this idea, but what is it they fear exactly?My old colleagues in the red states state, genuinely, that socialised medicine will lead to socialism. They have all been taught to conflate social democracy and communism. That’s pretty much it, the idea of public schools, roads, infrastructure and helping the elderly is expected and not called socialism. Asking for our taxes back in the form of healthcare is communism and only works everywhere else. That, combined with their concept of “freedom” which entails a relentless focus on negative liberty and utter rejection of positive liberty.
There’s also a fair bit of callous insistence that life should be hard and full of suffering. My dad has mocked me as being a “bleeding heart liberal” more than once. People like him think people SHOULD struggle to get health care if they’re not wealthy. Because poverty = you’re a bad person. I hate to be the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and one to go ahead and argue with a stawman, but whenever I hear people say this, I remind them that farms, infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, highways, water treatment, power plants and distribution, auto manufacturing, drug manufacturing, child care, many others are all subsidized by taxes. It’s such a shitty argument. What gets me, and I’m not the first to say this either, is that dem voters in the USA tend to be more affluent than GOP voters. So the voters who would benefit the most from socialized medicine are the ones who most strongly oppose it.
Appeal to the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and lower-educated and under-informed with misleading information to vote against their own interests, and then blame the Democrats for the problems caused by GOP policies and obstructing Democrats who try to fix it. Farms are probably the most subsidized industry in the U.S., which makes their voting trends even more puzzling. This is the same in England: pay me colossal subsidies so I can vote for the conservatives! I don’t get it. I had an argument with a farmer I know who was going to vote for Brexit and he was very offended when I pulled his subsidies- and it was a tonne of cash. Yes 100%…. the ones who benefit the most are the corporate farms already flush in money. Helps those dividends go up for the 1%
Many years ago (sorry, no cite) I saw an interview with a farmer about immigration. He was absolutely opposed to it. No immigrants whatsoever! Then he was asked about his farm workers (who were all immigrants…probably illegal) and without missing a beat or an ounce of a sense of hypocrisy said he needed them. Can’t keep them out. yep, it was fascinating watching lower income republicans freak-the-fuck-out when their representatives were trying to repeal Obamacare No they want Obamacare gone. But not the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and Affordable Care Act, which, of course, was called Obamacare by Republicans to try to make it unpopular. It’s voting with your gut vs your brain. Once the gut takes over (fear or anger), the brain is shut down – literally. You cannot think properly anymore. The GOP knows how to play this card.
We only need a few hundred thousand for farm work my friend immigration by the Christmas Palm Tree Xmas Light Matching Family Shirt and by the same token and millions is not justified by United States labor needs. All of which can be done legally with work visas etc we don’t need nor want these people who come to take economic advantage. My favourite bits of fear mongering about universal healthcare are: “Why should I pay for other people to get treatment?” And the death council “I’m not having someone tell me what treatment I can and can’t get!” Both clearly showing that they have no idea how medical insurance works. For almost all people, they’ll SAVE a lot of money. Yes, taxes may increase a few percent, but they don’t consider that they then won’t be paying $400 a month minimum to health insurance The people making money off the healthcare system obviously won’t make as much money anymore. Which is bullshit because we always pay one way or another.

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