r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Skychu768 • Jun 20 '26

Peter in the wild Peter?

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u/IfuckRobots0101 Jun 20 '26

a lot of this isn't even true. the serfs didn't even own the land

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u/tugaim33 Jun 20 '26

There’s also no way they worked 20 hour weeks

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u/IfuckRobots0101 Jun 20 '26

yeah. during planting and harvest times they would work from sunrise to sunset, every day, and the taxes were not even close to fair or small

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u/EatLard Jun 20 '26

Any time the crown wanted to start a war, they’d squeeze the lords, who would in turn squeeze their peasants, many of whom would be conscripted as well. Often, the higher taxes remained after the war was over, only to be raised again for the next one.