Anon has a wholesome thought

and you one random medical accident away from losing all that, in some uncivilized countries

Anon discovers gratitude.

Just being able to bathe regularly and not deal with parasites is really a big deal.

One little cut away from a horrific prolonged gangrenous death
I've started showering every day because I stream on Twitch and TikTok Live and I don't want to look like a hobo
- Right thing wrong reason :/

Chances are anon is or will soon be a wizard.

Do you own your own house?

No? Then no matter what petit bourgeois toys and little luxuries you have, you're still not doing that good.

EDIT: I'm halfing up? on this. Fine, the serf didn't own his house. your fucking parents and your grandparents did. so should you. Things are getting worse economically, and no amount of phones can change that.

Was just about to summon the anti-capitalist hordes but I see I'm too late.
How many owned their own land through history?
I know very little about how things were handled pre-medival, but its my understanding that serfdom (where you were attached to a piece of land and obligated to work it) was the norm for the vast majority of common people.
- That's accurate to what serfdom was but it was an evolution of pre-medival slavery. Instead of being the personal property of a king working the fields on the kings owned land, it was about being the personal property of the crown, the state, the system (owned by the king.)
  A slave could earn their freedom, be set free, or even kill their master and be free. A lot of slaves in antiquity had a tendency to overthrow kingdoms.
  A serf though, was never meant to be free. Except, maybe, by another, foreign nation state. And now you know the basis of most European medieval war history.
- Not that different from today... you have to work for the piece of land you own/rent.
- Do you own the servers for the company you work at?
  I am assuming the house you lived on as a serf was yours, and you could do whatever you wanted to it. I don't think the lord was trotting about town going "Um, regulations say no pets"
nope, i'm not the homeowner. i share the house with two other guys. my social security check pays for the rent
- Then no matter what petit bourgeois toys and little luxuries you have, you’re still not doing that good.

OP is the user of civilization. In which way is he the product if he has gotten those things essentially for free?