>1400 AD
>Be a Lord with your own castle, servants, lands, etc. etc.
>Collect taxes from filthy plebs
>2016 AD
>Not even Lordly
>Taxed to shit
>Almost everyone hates you by default
>No castle, only some shitty building built by a faggot architect
What went wrong?
>>1259152
The government
If you can't buy a castle then you aren't really rich.
>>1259168
True. Castles aren't even that expensive.
>>1259152
Rich people have shit taste.
>Taxed to shit
kek, what are you even doing?
>>1259152
you're forgetting the one thing that didn't change
>get to relax and never worry about anything
>>1259437
It's called a long, slow torturous climb out of the dark ages, and if we are going to survive as a species, then it has to continue. If you find you just can't live in a word of greater equality well.. see ya later.
Hasta La Vista, assholes.
>>1259456
>muh equality
doesn't exist, never will
>be French/Russian/Spanish -revolution
>be not Prussian - conquered into germoney
>be Austrian/Prussian/turk - lose ww1
>>1259456
Who cares what the less creative and intelligent think about you? Let them resent you all they want. They are just projecting their own unhappiness onto you to avoid confronting their own shortcomings.
>>1260384
Exactly. I don't.