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[-] JayTreeman@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I'm confused. I didn't mean anything by it. Have you not heard about the pyramid slaves being well fed?

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 3 points 2 months ago

Have you not heard about the pyramid slaves being well fed?

I mean if they did manual labour they would have to be well fed as any slave doing manual labour. I fee like this statement is sus tho

[-] JayTreeman@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

There's a neat phenomenon in middle ages Europe where peasants often had more nutritious diets than royals. The explanation I've seen is that the peasants ate a varied diet, while the royals only ate the things they wanted. So the royals would often have bad teeth from sugar and a lack of chewing.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 1 points 2 months ago
[-] JayTreeman@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago
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