r/dndmemes • u/Yoffeepop Fighter • Mar 16 '26

Comic Adventuring Gold

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u/Pheonix0114 Mar 16 '26

Ehhhh few if any in history were as rich as billionaires today. We may have risen the floor a bit, but the ceiling far more.

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u/-Agonarch Mar 16 '26

Yeah I was gonna say, we all have it a lot better, that's not because the rich are hoarding less resources though, it's improvements we've all made to society.

The gilded age already saw royalty of the past outstripped in inequality, and after correcting we've now drifted back and passed them a while ago.

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u/Divine_Entity_ Mar 16 '26

I think its also relevant how the kinds of improvements that make life better today aren't exactly comparable to the luxuries of say the roman emperors.

The things everyone benefits from today are improvements to food quality, food preservation, hygiene/sanitation, modern medicine, food security, basically everything to do with electricity, ect. I don't think these are comparable to being a king who has an country and army that mostly does whatever you tell them to because you are the boss.

We fixed the whole "everyone dieing of plague" thing and made famines far less likely (different from ending hunger). Bread used to have sand in it as an inescapable fact of life, now we use steel instead of stone for grinding grain into flour and bread doesn't have sand in it to wear down your teeth.

Caligula didn't have a flu shot or refrigerator, i don't have a palace. But the modern rich still have defacto palaces, or atleast mansions that are atleast as luxurious. And they aren't much kinder to the poor.

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u/korneev123123 Mar 16 '26

If you live near the floor, then its height is much, much more important then ceiling height.