But, but, of COURSE it was better! There weren't any SUV's poisoning the atmosphere! And, and, this was before anyone decided to be an EVIL conservative! Everyone was happily living their life according to the rules set down by their betters!
(I didn't splash anyone with excess sarcasm, did I? I figure a little extra sarcasm is much more sanitary than frothing at the mouth, and spitting on everyone in range.)
people forget how pleased people in the cities were when automobiles became ubiquitous, because they didn't have step around/in all that natural fertilizer on the streets.
The U.S. city was a thriving urban centre by the end of the nineteenth century, with around 3.5 million inhabitants who, logically, needed to move around the town. At that time, there were about 170,000 horses also living in NYC (other sources put it at 200,000). By a quick calculation, we can estimate that each day in New York between one and two million kilos of equine excrement were "produced" every day, plus a litre of urine from each animal at least.
Full disclosure: I got the following analogy and example from Dr Hallenbeck (a Concord pediatrician) who made it in the 70s to Dr Jay Forrester of MIT). Both men's sons attended Concord-Carlisle High School and were classmates of my older brother. This is also when the first computer models predicting DOOOOM and Destruction were coming in 10-15 years.
"If your Club of Rome Limits to Growth computer model had been running in 1900 and applied to New York City it would come to the inescapable conclusion by 1970 we would be up to our clavicles in used horse food. What does the fact that we are NOT say about your models, Doctor?"
Harumph! You were stingy with your sarcasm. It was as if you were loathe to share sarcasm ...that parting with even a little was going to sweet sorrily leave you in snark penury and force you to dress in tie-dye sackcloth and give up your Members only jacket. I prefer feigning outrage for fainless am I to sarcasm when inordinate iotas of idiomatic indiscriminate idiocy suit me better. Mock him if you will, but this is how you say "No" to spittle when doing sarcasm. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/30/12/46082167-9843021-Pictured_United_States_Defense_Secretary_Lloyd_Austin_seen_left_-a-62_1627644231879.jpg
And when you worked, you WORKED. Absolutely grunting physical labor from sun up to sundown. No sitting in a cubicle, making sure you attached the right cover to the TPS Report.
Serfs worked. Or rather, paid fines for not showing up for work, and then the lord got to hire people whom he could threaten to not hire again if they didn't work well, the day laborers got jobs, and the serfs got to do their own work.
In England at least. There was a lot of variation. And since this was all de facto, there were problems after the Black Death when lords tried to enforce the labor.
People seem to think that the medieval times were like the 60's, with less rock & roll, and more time at home with the family.
How very true. If you're lucky. People tend to default to their own experience, and they aren't being taught to transcend it.
The 1300s? Famine followed by the black plague. Lots of funerals, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.
The irony is that the black plague actually improved the lives of those who survived it, giving them more leverage vis-à-vis the powers that be.
But, but, of COURSE it was better! There weren't any SUV's poisoning the atmosphere! And, and, this was before anyone decided to be an EVIL conservative! Everyone was happily living their life according to the rules set down by their betters!
(I didn't splash anyone with excess sarcasm, did I? I figure a little extra sarcasm is much more sanitary than frothing at the mouth, and spitting on everyone in range.)
people forget how pleased people in the cities were when automobiles became ubiquitous, because they didn't have step around/in all that natural fertilizer on the streets.
I found this on the innertubes:
New York, late nineteenth century
The U.S. city was a thriving urban centre by the end of the nineteenth century, with around 3.5 million inhabitants who, logically, needed to move around the town. At that time, there were about 170,000 horses also living in NYC (other sources put it at 200,000). By a quick calculation, we can estimate that each day in New York between one and two million kilos of equine excrement were "produced" every day, plus a litre of urine from each animal at least.
A composters dream come true.
Full disclosure: I got the following analogy and example from Dr Hallenbeck (a Concord pediatrician) who made it in the 70s to Dr Jay Forrester of MIT). Both men's sons attended Concord-Carlisle High School and were classmates of my older brother. This is also when the first computer models predicting DOOOOM and Destruction were coming in 10-15 years.
"If your Club of Rome Limits to Growth computer model had been running in 1900 and applied to New York City it would come to the inescapable conclusion by 1970 we would be up to our clavicles in used horse food. What does the fact that we are NOT say about your models, Doctor?"
Harumph! You were stingy with your sarcasm. It was as if you were loathe to share sarcasm ...that parting with even a little was going to sweet sorrily leave you in snark penury and force you to dress in tie-dye sackcloth and give up your Members only jacket. I prefer feigning outrage for fainless am I to sarcasm when inordinate iotas of idiomatic indiscriminate idiocy suit me better. Mock him if you will, but this is how you say "No" to spittle when doing sarcasm. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/30/12/46082167-9843021-Pictured_United_States_Defense_Secretary_Lloyd_Austin_seen_left_-a-62_1627644231879.jpg
And when you worked, you WORKED. Absolutely grunting physical labor from sun up to sundown. No sitting in a cubicle, making sure you attached the right cover to the TPS Report.
Freemen paid their rent in coins.
Serfs worked. Or rather, paid fines for not showing up for work, and then the lord got to hire people whom he could threaten to not hire again if they didn't work well, the day laborers got jobs, and the serfs got to do their own work.
In England at least. There was a lot of variation. And since this was all de facto, there were problems after the Black Death when lords tried to enforce the labor.